Editing Usage (language) (section)

==History==
According to Jeremy Butterfield, "The first person we know of who made ''usage'' refer to language was [[Daniel Defoe]], at the end of the seventeenth century". Defoe proposed the creation of a [[list of language regulators|language society]] of 36 individuals who would set [[linguistic prescription|prescriptive]] language rules for the approximately six million English speakers.<ref name=JB />

The Latin equivalent ''usus'' was a crucial term in the research of Danish linguists [[Otto Jespersen]] and [[Louis Hjelmslev]].<ref>{{citation|author = Dace Strelēvica-Ošiņa |title= The Language of Correctness: Some Terms of Latin Origin |journal= Antiquitas Viva |date = 2019 |issn = 2255-9779 |volume= 5 |page = 191 |doi = 10.22364/av5.16 | language=en|doi-access = free }}</ref> They used the term to designate usage that has widespread or significant acceptance among speakers of a language, regardless of its conformity to the sanctioned standard language norms.<ref name=mrk>{{harvp|Markowski|2005|p=21}}</ref>