People burble away, but give little thought to what they’re saying, or, more precisely, how they’re saying it. Take weather, for example, which once simply happened. Now the weather and elements of it are described as events, as though deliberately staged

It is one thing to observe that meanings change, and can even reverse over a couple of centuries, but quite another to encourage a current misuse, invariably based on ignorance. People paid to use words really should make the effort to set a good example

Many people speaking publicly and a significant proportion of those […]