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De Praescriptiva

For twenty-five years or more, I have kept my eye on this little word ‘people,’ and I have yet to find a single American or English author who does not misuse it…. You are not obliged to do anything of the kind, and never will be, unless all good writers agree upon it, and then — for that is the way language is made — it will be proper to do so.