H L Mencken once said that when one-third of the people who speak a language from early childhood say "goods train" and two-thirds say "freight train", then "freight train" is standard and "goods train" is dialect.
(Incidentally, the first edition of the Oxford dictionary defined "freight train" as US for "goods train", but neglected to define "goods train".)
This is the old normative/customary use of language debate, which is moot. The majority can be wrong. The vast majority can be utterly wrong. Actually the majority is likely to be wrong. Languages have a logic and a "system". Most people don't understand that, just out of sheer ignorance - lack of interest - linguistic vandalism, but the Happy Few, the true White Knights of Correct Usage, will always keep their flag high and their "panache" ready.
If linguistic form had to be comply with the "majority" principle, than the following expressions would be right:
Kodak lost it's reason to be;
In who's interest should somebody defend Kodak?
Perez and he's colleagues are a bunch of morons;
etc.
Defend the purity of your language! Fight in the name of Grammar!
Fabrizio
PS Americanisms are right, no problem with that. Lift, elevator, that stuff. I'm just very concerned with the new "he or she", "his of her", it's all just so clumsy and ridiculous. If Shakespeare had to write his works, what a mess would he be forced to write by the zealots of political correctness!
PPS Go on, find orthographic mistakes in this post, and consume my martyrdom on the field of Linguistic Truth!