Thread by @ErrataRob

Time for another lesson in dictionaries. Yes, dictionaries are supposed to reflect how people DO use words, not how they SHOULD use words. But this includes documenting the fact people will look down on you for using it.

https://twitter.com/Dictionarycom/status/1370192823396405250

Wikitionary.org gets it right, labeling the use of "supposably" for "supposedly" is "nonstandard".

Dictionary.com gets it wrong, declaring that it's a "new word" (it's not new) and failing to document that it's a nonstandard use.

This thread isn't about "supposably" but is subtweeting the debate about "hacker".

Here, we see Wiktionary.org gets it mostly right, and Dictionary.com gets it somewhat wrong.

The fact is that one standard use of "hacker" is to mean "with malicious intent", and that another standard use means "without malicious intent or result". Both together are valid. A dictionary that gives one but not the other is invalid.