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“Formally” and “then” applied where “formerly” and “than” are intended are merely misuses.
Not surprisingly, examples abound of disaster-aid abuses and misuses over the last few years.
Plotz also misuses the concept of the invisible hand, using it to mean something quite apart from what Adam Smith intended.
There are many other instances of the misuses of citational evidence, not only by users of dictionaries but by lexicographers themselves: there is no way, using the citational materials at present appearing in dictionaries as prima facie evidence, that one would be justified in assuming that a broad statistical segment of English speakers is thereby represented; even the most cursory examination of entries in the OED (which I assume to be the source of Graham's information) will rapidly, ineluctably lead the observer to realize that