TODAY John McIntyre takes a long whack at an ill-thought-through catalogue of usage shibboleths, to which I commend the reader. The first example he gives could use a little more illustration here.

“MISOGYNY” SEEMS a straightforward word. In dictionaries, it is “hatred of women”. In its etymology are the Greek verb misein, to hate, and gyne, women. The word, like the sentiment, has been around ...