Strange Brew by John Deering for May 27, 2018

Like “enjoy” which means to give joy rather than to feel joy….. but that has been misused since before Wells’ time.

And then there’s this: The word “areal” is the adjective version of the noun “area.”

Why does the weatherman need to teach english class?

And why is there a whole channel just to talk about the weather?

H.G. was knocked out cold.

“And why is he using a noun as a verb?”

Because English is a language in which any noun can be verbed.

The weather reporter will likely challenge your use of an extra question mark, Mr. Wells.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impact (Be sure to read the WHOLE page.) :0 Mike drop.

Is he going to start a “War of the Words”?

And what happened to “normality”?? It’s all “normalcy” these days.

To be fair, the use of style guides as if they were prophetic scripture was in its heyday among the educated in Wells’ time. Modern scholars are more accepting of the “evolving language” model. Ironically, aspiring pedants among the masses tend to cling to hearsay about guidelines that were too often taken as absolute rules.