Random Wisdom
Yates asked Scholes, anxiously it seemed to me, which unabridged dictionary he should buy. ... Scholes replied judiciously that Yates should get the second edition of the "Merriam-Webster," which was prescriptive rather than descriptive. Prescriptive, as nearly as I could tell, was like an honest cop, and descriptive was like a boozed-up war buddy from Mobile, Alabama.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Welcome to the Monkey House-
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