Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.
LIBERALS IN LANGUAGE MATTERS
favor liberal usage. They are often young, full of zeal for change, and determined to adopt the new, the modish, the different. They frequently chafe under what they consider the constraints of the dead hands of convention and tradition, and in their impatience they often try to hurry change along, with the result that they may not always be understood. See LIBERAL USAGE; compare CONSERVATIVES IN LANGUAGE MATTERS.
