Good Word Guide: The Fast Way to Correct English – Spelling, Punctuation, Grammar and Usage (6th edition)

Every time a new “standard” English dictionary was published and the newspapers had fun with the current words of varying degrees of trendiness or rudeness that had been added to it, my late mother would tut‐tut at the apparently declining standards of English lexicography. No use to try and explain to her that the function of these dictionaries was to record the vocabulary currently in use in English, whatever one's opinions of its suitability: if it was added to an Oxford dictionary, in her eyes the offending word or words had been “accepted”, and the standards of Oxford University Press...