atw: Re: Correct usage conundrum: "Match to" vs "Match with"

  • From: Peter Martin <peterm_5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:45:31 +1100

Brian Clarke wrote:
> Only the Macq uses the media as an arbiter of correct usage.

A seemingly confident assertion with one problem: it's dead wrong.
 
Wherever did you get that idea?

 If you care have a look at, for example, the Complete Oxford dictionary, you'll find literally thousands of citations or extracts from various forms of media for the meaning of English words, citing them in context.   I would have thought each of these were intended as examples of what you might term "correct" usage....  (I don't see too many claims in the Oxford that their citations are "incorrect").  
 
 t get where you want to go if you don't know where you are.

-PeterM
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