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usage guide en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A book that explains how to use a standardised language correctly and in keeping with currently accepted style, usually through the explication of what are conservatively viewed as language "errors".
    • There is also a gap between the general population and the falling-standards bemoaners, usage guide publishers, and language pundits, whether conservative or progressive. 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 114:

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