The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #64556   Message #1056316
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
18-Nov-03 - 12:33 PM
Thread Name: BS: Paradox and irony
Subject: RE: BS: Paradox and irony
Different places, different dictionaries.

There's always this question how far dictionaries should be prescriptive and how far descriptive, and there is no fixed answer. However the fact that a definition appears in a dictionary, or an online glossary, does not in itself guarantee that it is an "accurate" definition.