I can remain silent no longer.
Oh good grief… there is no such thing as “on accident”.
It’s BY accident, BY accident, BY accident, FFS.
It stings all the more because Stephen is one of the more erudite writers on the Internet, and should know better.
It’s an intergenerational plot to make us old folks crazy. You thought it was just pronouns they wanted to mess with? Oh, no, it’s prepositions, too. Soon it will be verbs until the entire language becomes a newspeak torture and oldsters beg for sweet oblivion.