...Notice I deleted your reference to the COL's advocacy of Bill Weavers' aberration, so as not to sully his memory.
Ray Chapman, had an interesting take on the Weaver stance and why he altered it.
C.S. Lewis wrote about men who referred to other men as "gentlemen", in the british sense of being genteel, when the word really means a man of property, land, and title. A century ago a man could be, at once, a gentleman and a scoundrel of the highest order. This was the common understanding of that day. Now, the word essentially means nothing thanks to well-meaning folks like your self. Lewis referred to this phenomenon as "verbicide", or the murder of a word...
...beautifully stated!
