“That explains a lot: I was educated with textbooks from conservative-cut-education Texas, not the blue-liberal state of Massachusetts.”
1: You don’t need to re-quote your own comment, just mine. And if you still decide to, you need to add extra quotation marks.
2: Dictionaries are universal, not state-to-state, therefore that rebuttal is complete bullshit.
3: That’s some nice back-pedaling you needed to do so you could make it look like you weren’t flat out incorrect."
Ze Grammar Gestapo has spoken ze written law on English in a meme website!
We didn't use Mirriam webster for grammar, just dictionary (Again, see Texas Education)