Though his aides are quick to correct reporters who refer to him as "general," the secretary's military presence is infectious.
But in recent years, Feinberg publicly identified as transgender, and didn't feel it was necessary to correct reporters who referred to her as "he".
Matt Baggott, who when Madeleine disappeared was chief constable of Leicestershire police, the force that coordinated the British input, told the inquiry that he knew that the DNA evidence was being wrongly interpreted, but because the Portuguese were in charge of the inquiry, he made a decision not to correct reporters who were being briefed that the McCanns were involved.
Silver medal Tennis champion Andy Murray, who was congratulated for being the "first person ever to win two Olympic tennis gold medals" but quickly corrected reporter John Inverdale, saying: "I think Venus and Serena have won about four each".
He corrected reporters when they referred to his client as John Walker, the name the government has used in its statements about him.
Brother Zawdie Abdul-Malik, a member of Camden's elected Board of Education, also marched and carefully corrected reporters' spelling of his name ("My father was a mister," he said. "I'm a brother").
Even before Selig erred on baseball's negotiating history by saying this was the first collective bargaining agreement achieved without the loss of a single game, Marvin Miller, the man who lived baseball's negotiating history, was correcting reporters and others who sum up that history as eight work stoppages in eight negotiations.
Gigicos also corrected reporters who called it a "victory tour," preferring the phrase "thank you tour".
He also corrected a reporter on the correct pronunciation of "Mee-gos".
