This list of writers is pretty solid proof the usage is long established and correct. That verification took me one google search. The first hit was this dictionary.com blog entry. It linked to this upenn article, which gave the Dickins’ examples.

Not doing such checks is laziness, pure and simple. Writing articles showing off the laziness is foolish.

These self–appointed ‘experts’ forget language changes. A list of how other people get English wrong is usually an unintentional declaration that the author’s English usage is backward.