Starshadw at aol.com asked: > Who gets to decide what is a good change and what is a bad change?? Asked and answered, sir. Steve has made it clear that he reserves the right, as we all do and should to consider any particular change to English either good or bad. It is an opinion. One may express such opinions without casting aspersions on people who use the "bad". I think Steve has done a good job of explaining what he means. Others (myself included) may have muddied the waters a bit, and raised several questions in this discussion, but rereading Steve's posts, I see a consistent declaration of his position, most recently in his reply to your question. SKZB wrote: > I am well aware that language changes. I reserve the right to consider > some of the changes good, and use them; and to consider other changes bad, > and not use them, and even object to them under certain circumstances. This is the essence of "usage." Casey