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An old coach of mine used to say, "You either have results, or you have reasons."

I’ve given you dozens of cites, Hundreds maybe, in those definitions I’ve provided. The publishers of dictionaries all have a board of scholars who constantly research new words and the ‘evolution’ (you should pardon the expression) of existing words.

And yet amazingly, with those hundreds of cites out there, you are unable to come up with even one.

(Side note, purely in the spirit of dictionary appreciation: you might enjoy the book The Professor and the Madman, the story of the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and the asylum inmate who provided him with many of his most useful citations.)

”An old coach of mine used to say, "You either have results, or you have reasons."”

What did your old coach have to say about an opponent who wanted to carry the whistle and the flag as well as play the game, and who changed the boundaries any time the course of the game looked to be taking an inauspicious turn? I’ve produced results. You’ve rejected them. Only an outcome selected to your specs will satisfy. Should more of your demands be met, you would simply change the boundaries again. I don’t play in rigged games. If you want to send someone on a fool’s errand, go find a fool.

In the meantime, while you demand every issue you raise be answered, you ignore any issue you find inconvenient (a propensity common among The Masters of the Universe). For instance. Since you reject dictionaries as repositories of the meaning of words (their primary function), I’ve asked if you, then, denounce dictionaries as perverse tools of the rabid and wicked Christian Right, and if you would even have one in the house . . . Crickets.

I reject the proposition that you get to play and also get to carry the whistle and the flag, just as I would expect you to reject any such proposition favoring me. We’ve presented our arguments. Let the forum decide. It will be a mixed verdict, surely.

Side bar: The Professor and the Madman sounds like fun. I would note that the asylum inmates were where they were because they were crazy, not because they were stupid. In a similar vein, I can report that a team of Harvard chess masters were once soundly defeated by a team of inmates from Bedlam. { :^)