The phrase "linguistic usage" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a generally accepted term and can be used to refer to the way a language is used and understood by people. For example, "The linguistic usage of the word 'willy-nilly' has changed dramatically over the past two decades."
We have more than 2000 years of linguistic usage bearing down on us.
It covers: Larkin's many comments on his work; closely relevant historical contexts; persons and places; echoes and allusions; and linguistic usage".
This year's battle on that point may be largely over but it is by no means won by those who would change our established linguistic usage.
The British authorities have more recently instituted another linguistic usage by which the visible balance is equivalent to the true merchandise balance.
Nerlich, B. in Cognitive Foundations of Linguistic Usage Patterns (eds. Schmid, H.J. & Handl, S.) (Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, in the press).
"Substandard," the dictionary tells us, "indicates status conforming to a pattern of linguistic usage that exists throughout the American language community but differs in choice of word or form from that of the prestige group in that community".
One of Mitford's most widely read books was Noblesse Oblige: An Enquiry into the Identifiable Characteristics of the English Aristocracy (1956), a volume of essays of which she was coeditor and which brought to the attention of the world the distinction between linguistic usages that are U (upper class) and those that are non-U (not upper class).
From the fourteenth century on discussions of analogy focused not so much on linguistic usages as on the nature of the concepts that corresponded to the words used.
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Availability and supply analysis of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) is complicated by sheer substance variety, the introduction of ever-newer compounds, linguistic diversity, evolving usage patterns in various nationalities or communities, and a shifting regulatory and legal landscape.
There is a feeling, occasionally, of being bundled too fast through complex linguistic developments and usages, or of being given interesting slices of history for the sake, after all, of not much more than a "gong" or a "moccasin".
