Quote Originally Posted by Jarema View Post
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/thusly
If it is in the dictionary, it's a word now. Why? Because it's in use, unlike thousands of other words in the dictionary that no one ever really uses, and the definition is publicly known.

Because language is evolving, it doesn't have many defined or permanent rules. But one of them is, if I can find it in a dictionary, and people use it as a word, it is now a word. That's it, folks.

"Ain't ain't a word."

Except now it is. Suck on that, English teacher.