So many people have used “beg(gar) the question” when they mean to say “raise the question” that it’s now an upstream battle; just like idiots pluralizing mass nouns (e.g email).

But, where French has a body guiding its evolution, English progresses merely by what’s popular. And if you think vapid influencers on insta-tube are steering English firmly into the idiocratic ditch, you’d be half right.