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“No language as depending on arbitrary use and custom can ever be permanently the same, but will always be in a mutable and fluctuating state; and what is deem’d polite and elegant in one age, may be accounted uncouth and barbarous in another.”
Which is why the King James Version or any translation of the Bible, past, present, or future eventually becomes obsolete.
was an essential credo for any future dictionary maker, he said, to realize that a dictionary was simply “an inventory of the language” and decidedly not a guide to proper usage.
The first time I ever heard this term was while watching a Perry Mason show in which Mason was defending a man named Daniel Lewis, aka Monty Sewell, in a comittal hearing. He was diagnosed as suffering from this disease.
