I am a bit confused now.
I mean, a canoe you peddle, don't you? You don't row it.
And a bike you pedal?
I know the metaphorical meaning.
Just want to use your beautiful language as correct as i possibly can as a form of respect. Although I am just some bloody foreigner.
I would be happy to be corrected, not wanting to be like the idiots who start shouting about spelling-Nazi's.
It is important for me to use the correct grammar and spelling.
Typo's are different as anyone can make them.
I know languages are developing and changing, new words coming (and going) but large spread adoptation of too many new words (as is more happening now then ever due to the internet) could make the old words, and their meaning, obsolete so many people would not be able to read and understand books existing for a longer period.
Anyone having a drive to write, and surely professional writers and journalists, would understand the importance of not messing around with their tools, their instruments to write.
Fortunately, I have the impression many people in England understand the importance of their language as it is a world language and they are proud of it. And they have the right to be so!
It also gives me the pleasures of reading books from the English literature and to a great deal, understand them, that are old but not obsolete.