No, I realize that. I was commenting on the professional writer or the article.
Axe...I know what you mean. Same with “whiff” instead of “with”. You also see a lot of “...the people that protested the policy...” instead of the correct “...the people who protested the policy...” Whatever happened to English grammar instruction? I think there are too many teachers who want to talk about the symbolism found in a phone book instead of the rules of grammar.
Why don’t teachers correct grammar? I was educated in the German school system and my teachers corrected our grammar constantly until we got it right