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From: "Nicholas Berry" <nikberry@med.umich.edu>
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"Richard B. Johnson"  wrote:

> The term "illegal" historically refers to laws. Laws are rules
> enacted by governments.

As definition (a) in the OED makes clear.

But then the OED also says:

  b. Lawless, irregular. Obs. rare. 
 
  1728 R. MORRIS Ess. Anc. Archit. 20 How preferable the Beauties of ancient Architecture are to the illegal Practices of our modern Builders.

So if bad architecture can be illegal, I guess bad operands can be too.

Nik


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