I suppose my basic point about the past tense of "text" in the "Texting - SMS" thread was to establish at what stage we (the people who know everything about language) give up swimming against the linguistic tide, swallow our pride and adopt the "common usage".
There comes a point (in our fifties and sixties) when our correct usage becomes pedantic and even those educated people in our social class nudge each other and ask "why does he speak in such an old-fashioned way?".
I will start this thread by asking if anyone has a phrase that they are on the point of giving up for fear of appearing outdated.
My own suggestion would be the comparative of two-syllable adjectives "cloudier, sunnier" are now increasingly being expressed as "more cloudy, more sunny", even by BBC weather forecasters.
Another example would be that the whole generation who were admonished for saying "Billy and me went to the park" are now in middle age over-correcting themselves and saying "that champagne is too expensive for my husband and I".