"Words have always been political, and that means that, in many people's minds, dictionaries are political. Because that's what dictionaries do: they do words."

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There's a measure of prescriptivism and descriptivism in every dictionary. Prescriptivism believes that the language should mirror the best practices of English, and editors are prescriptivist in so far as they don't want to let things they consider to be inelegant or ungrammatical into print.

— Kory Stamper