>Webster's" on a dictionary has no significance - it's just an attempt to cadge >some legitimacy by invoking Noah Webster's name). Try AHD or OED (both of >which do support the usage).
Dictionaries do NOT support usage! They report it! Any usage is subject to consensus. We, when I was a kid, used to say ain't ain't in the dictionary. It is, now! - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
