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by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 1857 days ago
Yeah you're right. I guess a style guide or a usage guide would be a prescriptivist dictionary?

I'd always heard "prescriptivist dictionary" is a thing that exists but now that I'm thinking about it I'm kind of doubting it.

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I suppose the only thing where that might actually make sense is if you're a lawyer, where slightly different wordings have big impacts on what a contract or ruling actually means.