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1. Karell+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-06-29 22:51:11
Yes, but people haven't been using it incorrectly for long enough for it to be considered acceptable, by the very citation you've given:

> This does raise the question of why we don't enter this sense of jive, even though we have evidence of its use since the 1940s. [...] So far, neither jive nor gibe as substitutions for jibe has this kind of record [literally hundreds of years], but it seems possible that this use of jive will increase in the future, and if it does dictionaries will likely add it to the definition.

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2. mander+wn[view] [source] 2023-06-30 01:28:06
>>Karell+(OP)
Apparently, many English speakers consider it to be acceptable, and have done so for more than half a century.
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3. Akrony+b71[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-06-30 09:06:19
>>mander+wn
As a non-native english speaker, I didn't even know about jibe, while knowing about jive.
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4. Karell+4A1[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-06-30 12:58:02
>>mander+wn
Lots of English speakers consider "could of" to be acceptable, and have similarly done so for a few decades now. That doesn't make them right ;-)
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