Prescriptive attitudes to language change

Using the words 'like', 'wait' and 'speak', I have found some similarities and differences between online dictionaries.

• The first similarity that I found in all the dictionaries that I looked at is that there was a phonetic spelling of the words, which is there to help the reader to pronounce the word.
• There are adjectives like 'archaic' next to the words to help to describe whether they are still used in modern day or if they are no longer used.
• In all dictionaries the word 'informal' is used to describe the formality that the word is used in. For example in the Oxford Online Dictionary, when looking at the word 'like', it is used when describing 'like' as a conjunction and then gives an example of the word in the phrase: "people who change countries like they change clothes". However it isn't just 'informal' used, 'British informal' is used in the same dictionary. It uses the phrase 'like anything' and then has 'British informal' next to it to explain to readers that it is only used in Britain as a informal phrase.
• Other conventions that it used is putting the word class next to the word, before the example of the word being used in that word class. An example would be that in all dictionaries when searching the word 'wait' it has the word classes, "noun" and "verb".