Webster's Third Dictionary The most controversial dictionary in the English language.

It's an old story and a sad one. The current straw-man versions of descriptive and prescriptive[/i] trace their origin to the hubbub around its publishing. It even made it into a popular novel:
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She was staring up at me. "He's burning up a dictionary?"

"Right. That's nothing. Once he burned up a cookbook because it said to remove the hide from a ham end before putting it in the pot with lima beans. Which he loves most, food or words, is a tossup."

[Archie, explaining Wolfe's reaction to a dictionary that allows the use of "imply" in place of "infer," in Gambit, chapter 1.]

Ceci n'est pas un seing.