You have written eloquently about why traditional music means so much to you on another thread, Jim, and why you are so ready to leap to its defence, but I cannot agree with your assertion that there have been no counter arguments to your point of view. You are wilfully ignoring what you do not wish to read.
Dictionaries regularly update the meanings of words in the light of common parlance and usage.
Words do mean what people use them to mean. Can you refute that by any argument or example?
As an example of the "more down to earth" usage of language by women, I heard on the radio last week, a woman describing something that she and her family had done on holiday for the past two years.
"It has become a family tradition" she said.
Cheers
Dave