I wasn't not sure whether to go here or to a thread which deals with odd stuff you hear on the radio, but probably this is a good venue.

Yesterday, on NPR, there was a rather pompous commentator giving out a rant on the word "lucubrate", which he says is somehow becoming popular. What he objects to is that it is misused, not only as to its meaning, by making it mean more than it's supposed to, but also by making it a transitive verb. All well and good, but then he mentioned other words which he would like to see used more, such as "etiolated" and "inchoate". What made this entertaining was that the fool twice pronounced "etiolated" as uh-TIE-o-lated. (At least he didn't render "inchoate" as in-chote.)