Fillinguy wrote:correcting her on how she pronounced the name of her HOME TOWN.
(Tsawwassen)
I was at CHQM when then-Station Manager Bill Bellman did his daily Perspective editorial that explained that: how "Tsawwassen" was said was changing at the station.
Or, for a more obvious example, if you were born in Thunder Bay, that doesn't give you the right, on air, to call it Port Arthur or Fort Francis just because that was what it was called when you were born there.
In the course of writing material for people, I often run into the "My favourite teacher in Elementary School taught me that you can't write it that way." The English language changes over time. In Elementary School, one of my textbooks, written and printed in Canada, was old enough that it used the spelling "aeroplane", which was apparently the official spelling a decade or so before I started school.
As a trivia note, the extreme example I'm aware of where someone used the argument "when I learned to drive, you were allowed to do that" was a co-worker's elderly mother who argued with the Police Officer and refused to pay the ticket when she made an illegal left turn, on the grounds that the No Left Turn sign had been installed since she got her driver's license (around 1930), which gave her the right, for life, to make a left turn there.