@alpower then again - in the UK - we would tend to got to The OED where they seem to have 4 'current' and 4 'obsolete' meanings. We now need a language scholar to tell me why ANY of them are 'that different' to each other - and none of them seem to suggest an insult - nor even derogatory - though I THINK my take on derogatory is in HOW the word is said and the CONTEXT and TONE - not in the 'language written' ...

As you say - makes for an interesting discussion - particularly since it all started with @odd who IMHO has an excellent command of English - and yet recognizes odd mishaps. Wouldn’t it be cool if English as a first language people understood the language as well as someone for whom (I think it's whom - not who) English is at least a second language!