TIL that I have been using 'beg the question' wrongly. Early (non-)examples I saw of the phrase, in newspapers, led me to understand that it meant "to leave th

TIL that I have been using 'beg the question' wrongly. Early (non-)examples I saw of the phrase, in newspapers, led me to understand that it meant "to leave the question going begging", such as when a politician is asked something he/she does not wish to answer--and does not answer, in a great many words. In hindsight I should have known better. Journalists mostly get the content of their stories wrong; why would they get their language right?