Oh, point very much taken. There's a linguist me, who took grad level linguistics classes for kicks as an undergrad and understands that languages evolve, and an editor me, who's a nitpicking wacko .... > a moment's pause whilst I look askance at the guys noisily cleaning the outside of my office window ... <

Certainly language is going to change. But we're a Federal enforcement agency populated mainly by lawyers ... if I know what that means (and I never took any French, not one bit of it), they should too ... shouldn't they?