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The English language is constantly growing and changing. Necessity or fashion is always creating new words. Traditional grammarians examine the usage of these new words, as well as older more established words. The traditional grammarians hav ....

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... These choices and patterns are usage” (Bishop xxi). Traditional grammarians firmly upheld the standards for language usage and were the commanding authority during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when good grammar was a distinct sign of “breeding, station, and intellect” (Bishop xxi). Using proper grammar helped distinguish a person’s character, level of education, and their social class. For this reason usage was kept in a formal state and English grammarians devoted themselves to “refining, ascertaining, and fixing” the language (Bishop xxii). “The traditionalists maintain that language is subject to a higher morality and ...