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

Jones did not think fit to acquaint the serjeant with his design; though he might have done it with great safety, for the halberdier was himself a man of honour, and had killed his man.

Muhavias by the Death of Oſman, and his Succeſſor Aly, becoming Caliph, ſo conſiderably encreaſed his Power that he rendered the Emperor Conſtantine Pogonatus his Tributary; in the fifth Year of which Prince’s Reign, the Saracens coming up with a great Fleet and Army to Conſtantinople, they ſeized on all that lay between the Hebdomum and Cyclobium, two Suburbs of that City; whereupon Conſtantine brought out his Fleet, and they fought every Day from Morning till Night in the Port there.

[…] at least half of which would be put into the pool for the winner, the rest kept for the runners of the system to cover costs and more than likely make a fair profit.