These and other objections to common usages undoubtedly make some of us feel more astute than "hoi polloi"; and note my omission of the vulgarly redundant definite article, in the knowledge that "hoi" means "the" in ancient Greek: one up for me!

It appears, however, that by the time anyone's noticed enough examples of an "incorrect usage" to raise a hullabaloo (I mean "an uproar"), it's too late to do anything except fume. Or, if you're an editor, to ban them from your publication.

Shakespeare used "between you and I" (see the OED). After two hundred years, people are still saying "ain't," and more of them every day are saying "irregardless" for "irrespective" and "based off" for "based on." Chaucer, could he come back, might lament the botch we've made of the Inglysshe he spoke.

I direct my precious end-of-the-day energies to other topics.