Episode?

[Bryn]

As FF says it's the way of the world, and always has been (I expect in the past there would have been complaints about the redefinition of words like "nice" and "silly" on exactly similar grounds), and it could be that the reason English has become such a lingua franca is that (unlike in the case of French for example) there's no "language police" to decide what belongs in the language and where, so that it's much more mutable and adaptable. (Whether that's a good thing is another question of course.)

We had a good old rant over "reversioned" (intended to mean redesigned, in that case, I guess, rather than the more standard software development usage of abandoning changes to go back to an earlier version) on the old (now unversioned[sic]) message boards.