*brainfoom* I've never known/come across the use of "infer" to mean "imply". It's like saying... I don't know. That two things that are slightly different are actually the same when of course they're not.
It seems rather diplomatic of the OED to say "not universally accepted" because to me it just seems plain old wrong.
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Date: 2004-05-28 03:14 am (UTC)It seems rather diplomatic of the OED to say "not universally accepted" because to me it just seems plain old wrong.