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Title: Prescriptive rather than Descriptive
Review: In a (Rex Stout) Nero Wolf mystery, Nero is shown ripping apart a copy of Webster's Third International because it went from Prescriptive to Descriptive. His specific complaint was that Imply and Infer were treated as synonyms. And while it is true that many people use them that way, educated usage would frown on such. Alas. Those times are gone, my friend. We thought they'd never end.A prescriptive dictionary is probably hard to find these days. This may be your only choice in finding one.
