Associations to the word «Descriptivist»

Wiktionary

DESCRIPTIVIST, adjective. Subscribing to, or related to, descriptivism.
DESCRIPTIVIST, noun. An advocate of descriptivism; one who believes a language is defined by usage rather than theory.

Wise words

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
Dan Quayle