People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.

I was reading the dictionary, I thought it was a poem about everything

I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.

When it comes to correct English, there's no one in charge; the lunatics are running the asylum.

So what's in a name? The answer, we have seen, is, a great deal. In the sense of a morphological product, a name is an intricate structure, elegantly assembled by layers of rules and lawful even at its quirkiest. And in the sense of a listeme, a name is a pure symbol, part of a cast of thousands, rapidly acquired because of a harmony between the mind of the child, the mind of the adult, and the texture of reality.

If crime is going down, you shouldn't be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success.