| Prescriptive grammarians routinely disparage innovative usages as introducing ambiguities. |
| It was only by slow degrees that the native laws and customs were ousted by Anglo-Norman usages and the machinery of feudalism. |
| The usages are therefore many and varied in the history of Western art and folk music and in ethnomusicology. |
| While they are certainly overvalued, these words still retain their political usefulness as the struggle over their usages attest. |
| I was already aware of many other non-standard usages that didn't bother me a bit. |
| Such usages are sometimes described as barbarous and pleonastic, but such criticism does not affect their widespread use. |
