The link between language norms and the codification of a language – in dictionaries, grammars and usage guides – is well accepted.

[…] one in ten New Orleansians lived in the projects—some 50,000 souls more or less, almost all of them women with too many children, a gulag of women and children enisled by poverty.

Under the aching noonday glare, when the green things drooped and the birds withdrew to the depths of the forest, and all nature drowsed, his great Ha! ha! and Ho! ho! rose up to the sky and challenged the sun.

See ruddy maids, / Some taught with dexterous hand to twirl the wheel.