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		zentiggr on June 22, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Uber Backers Orchestrated Kalanick’s Ouster as... Fair enough... I should know I've seen enough word usage change over a few decades. Sigh.

jontas on June 22, 2017 [–]

That quote says it's been two and a half centuries.

sowbug on June 22, 2017 | [–]

The reference was to general change in word usage, not to change in this word's usage.

See also https://billbennett.co.nz/2009/09/01/writing-warning/

gommm on June 22, 2017 | | [–]

Nice quote from one of the links on this page:

I think 'to be a nitpicker' is one of those irregular verbs: I am a purist, you are a pedant, they are a bunch of nitpickers.

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