Am I behind the times?
Very likely, worse luck

How many here would like to see the distinction maintained?
Unreserved agreement. (Whoops - not a complete sentence!)

This sort of misuse is common, and we could bring (have brought) out many examples on this board. Is it getting to be more common than of yore? Are standards of teaching English really slipping in schools? or is this change just part of language's dynamism which I have applauded in other threads?