descriptivist
/D IH0 S K R IH1 P T IH0 V IH0 S T/noun
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(linguistics) Someone who records and describes actual rules regarding language usage, or who believes that linguistic norms should be defined by usage rather than theory.
adjective
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Subscribing to, or related to, descriptivism.
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