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I was already aware of many other non-standard usages that didn't bother me a bit.
Prescriptive grammarians routinely disparage innovative usages as introducing ambiguities.
One objection is that they'll let various inelegant usages into the language, but that is a tough basis on which to make one's argument.
It was only by slow degrees that the native laws and customs were ousted by Anglo-Norman usages and the machinery of feudalism.
While they are certainly overvalued, these words still retain their political usefulness as the struggle over their usages attest.
Suppose you wanted to track changes in the relative usages of syntactic variants by writers in, oh say, the past three or four decades.
However, differences in dialect consist primarily of slight differences in accent or pronunciation and minor grammatical usages.
Such usages are sometimes described as barbarous and pleonastic, but such criticism does not affect their widespread use.
The usages are therefore many and varied in the history of Western art and folk music and in ethnomusicology.
Did anyone ever check that a range of test pressures corresponded with suitability for particular usages?
Idiomatic usages are usually colloquial and informal, more or less obvious figurative extensions of ordinary uses.
Non-standard usages, like multiple negation, are sometimes attacked on the same grounds.
But I just think that figurative usages don't in fact help richness and vibrancy much.
And there he is, being appealed to with not one but two usages decried by strict grammarians.
Describe various tools and their usages in the daily work of the lumbermen.
Outside these specialised terms for slaves, there are some usages in the colonial newspapers which parallel those of the English press, but perhaps rather more obscurely.
The sudden emergence of the artistic act disrupts behaviours and distorts usages of the urban space.
The town's acquisition of jurisdictions from its lords would have been a sufficient motivation to compile a written set of customary usages of the town.
He upheld customary usages and institutions in Goa, reduced anti-Hindu discrimination, promoted education and tolerance, and abolished the colour bar.
From the fourteenth century on discussions of analogy focused not so much on linguistic usages as on the nature of the concepts that corresponded to the words used.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He had been taken prisoner when engaged in some exploit which was contrary to the usages of war.
The reasons for syntactical usages are given, instead of mere statements that such usages exist.
What a decidedly antipapal character did the Church, which retained most of the hierarchic usages, nevertheless assume!
Other entries are first usages, in chronological order, of other names that have been applied to the taxon in question.
The former was derived from, and regulated by, the laws and usages of nations.
But she was a Druidess in this, that she regretted she knew not what in the usages and practices of her Church.
Living so long in the East, he has unlearned the laws, the manners, and the usages of his country.
It is our custom to think out the consistency of all our doctrines and usages.
Arab religion was based on the ideas and usages which have been described in chap.
Mention also is made elsewhere in dealing with monastic art of the usages of the scriptoria.
They are otherwise known to express usages or opinions of the ante-Nicene centuries.
Neither Caesar nor Tacitus gives us any idea of the habits or usages of the people who lived north of the Belgae.
These usages are exactly such as would follow from the cross-cousin marriage.
All good conversation, manners, and action, come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.
Yet in no instance did he transcend the ordinary usages of Indian warfare.
In addition to the corps laws, there are some corps usages which have the force of laws.
It is said only that the cities were in a manner compelled to receive the same laws and usages.
Betty's ignorance of the usages of good society stood her friend.
That the rules and usages of the Gallican Church were inviolable.
The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force.
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