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Old Thu Mar 25, 2010, 02:17pm
HugoTafurst HugoTafurst is offline
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Originally Posted by ronald View Post
Dakota,

...As Webster stated, can denoting permission has been accepted since the 19th century.

Ron
I remember when we started doing that (accepting "can" as denoting permission).

It was just giving in to the common mis-use of the word.
Oh those were the days.....
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