I once got a critique saying the word "familiarize" is one of those ugly modern business buzzwords and was an anachronism for the 19th century (it is, in fact, a word that dates back to the 17th century)https://twitter.com/LeeFlower/status/1235910217629675522 …
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(To be fair, I hadn't done any research either, and did not look up how old the word was until after they corrected me, because I don't actually care But still)
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love people who do this, like, in general. "I don't actually know whether or not I'm right, but it FEELS like I am, so I must be!"
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See this is part of why I like language history and etymology, there's all sorts of fun surprises about how old/recent/connected things are :)
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