WHOA! The American Heritage Dictionary is descriptive and not prescriptive.
An entry in the AHD will tell you what people are doing to the
language, not what they should do. Throw that vile thing away!

At 1:45 PM -0500 1/16/03, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>hmm.. here is what American Heritage Dictionary says regarding
>methodology in its USAGE NOTES:

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Sitting here drinking diet mead
from my plastic fake auroch's horn
flagon, I wonder that my
contemporaries look like a bunch of
old geezers.