Sentences with phrase «recent common usage»

But I note with horror that in the latest electronic version they have added the recent common usage, formerly misusage.

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At a recent Syracuse Common Council committee meeting, Katelyn Wright, the executive director of the land bank, said in 2014 and 2015 the land bank paid about $ 250,000 to Onondaga County in sewer usage fees.

In recent years the word has filtered into common usage, denoting a way in which one might get from point A to impossibly distant point B, or a way to achieve the unthinkable.

Secondly, the authors of the dictionary — and this is an easy criticism of a work which has emerged over a number of years and can not be expected to keep up with every change in common usage — will need to pay attention to the influence of political correctness, which has resulted in changes to many signs in BSL in recent years.