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Usage (language)

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Everyday language users, including editors and writers, look at dictionaries, style guides, usage guides, and other published authoritative works to help inform their language decisions. This takes place because of the perception that Standard English is determined by language authorities. For many
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variations are routinely employed by its speakers; that is, it refers to "the collective habits of a language's native speakers", as opposed to idealized models of how a language works (or should work) in the abstract. For instance,
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are not generally prescriptive, but they often include "usage notes" which may describe words as "formal", "informal", "slang", and so on. "Despite occasional usage notes,
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tradition of language analysis, by way of contrast, "correct" tends to mean functionally adequate for the purposes of the speaker or writer using it, and adequately
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Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
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language users, the dictionary is the source of correct language use, as far as accurate vocabulary and spelling go. Modern
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Content in this edit is translated from the existing Polish Knowledge (XXG) article at ]; see its history for attribution.
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characterized usage as "the way in which a word or phrase is normally and correctly used" and as the "points of
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generally disclaim any intent to guide writers and editors on the thorny points of English usage."
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Dace Strelēvica-Ošiņa (2019), "The Language of Correctness: Some Terms of Latin Origin",
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Manner in which the written and spoken language is routinely employed by its speakers
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to be accepted by the listener or reader; usage is also, however, a concern for the
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According to Jeremy Butterfield, "The first person we know of who made
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to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is
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tradition, for which "correctness" is a matter of arbitrating style.
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R. Thomas Berner, "Usage Notes in the Oxford American Dictionary",
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language rules for the approximately six million English speakers.
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Common usage may be used as one of the criteria of laying out
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Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics (Second Edition)
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Kultura języka polskiego. Teoria. Zagadnienia leksykalne
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was a crucial term in the research of Danish linguists
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University of Chicago (2010). "Grammar versus usage".
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Fixing English: Prescriptivism and Language History
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a machine-translated version of the Polish article.
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