Harbornite
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I suspect that 400-odd years ago, a fair few English-language pedants / precisians / purists / prescriptivists were yelling for that Shakespeare son-of-unmarried-parents to be hanged, drawn and quartered; for the havoc that he was wreaking on the beautiful and precise English tongue.
Possibly. Back in Roman times, people were moaning about the misuse of Latin.