Normally I’m very relaxed about language and am firmly in the “hey, it evolves, and dialects are separate entities not bad things” camp

However I have one pet peeve, and that is people who confuse ringleader with ringmaster.  It just makes me so irrationally angry.  I don’t even know why.  A ringleader is a “a person who initiates or leads an illicit or illegal activity.” a ringmaster is the leader of a circus.  GET IT FUCKING RIGHT.

A ringleader is not the guy in a top hat who leads a circus.

For fuck’s sake.