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Official Definition #3: An example serving as a model; pattern.
Its meaning probably extends from its alternate definitions: "a display in fixed arrangement of such a set, as boy, boy's, boys, boys'" and "a set of forms all of which contain a particular element, esp. the set of all inflected forms based on a single stem or theme."
@skipvia: Love the term "bullshit bingo"!
Uhh... wrong on both counts? Like I said... I must run in different circles!
Either that or--equally possible now that I think about it--I just tune out the bullshit.
I can surmise that you are in neither business or education, c_b. It's at the top of the "bullshit bingo" lists in both of those circles.
I guess I run in different circles. Not only do I almost never hear this word, but even when I do, it doesn't have to do with shifting. Instead, it's usually used with "dominant," or else used as "paradigmatic."
You only ever hear about paradigms shifting. What do they think they are, better than us? Those shifty bastards, moving from place to place with no regard to those they leave behind.
The most annoying and misused word in the English language; used intentionally by stupid people to sound smart or by smart people to sound unintentionally stupid.