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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab
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To: jbe who wrote (3326)8/16/1999 1:34:00 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (3) of 4711
 
Terrence, on Feelies, recently used the word "presently" as a synonym for "now". I was about to pick nits over this, but a fellow nitpicker assured me by PM that this definition is now accepted by most dictionaries. I've got a dictionary somewhere in the house, but I'm not sure where: is this true? Are we to accept an obvious error simply because so many people make it?

At what point do we ditch the dictionary and stick to what is right?

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