Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for January 20, 2023

Actually, “begs the question”, has come to acquire the second and more popular meaning it has, a synonym for “raises the question”, from what began as misuse eventually becoming accepted as standard use. Remember when a sports reporter’s use of “medal” for “win a medal” at the LA Olympics was initially mocked but was eventually accepted, setting the precedent for the seemingly endless proliferation of nouns being used as verbs?