This is probably a petty thing, but I have never been comfortable with someone saying, “He disrespected me.” Technically, maybe, perhaps, it can be traced back to an early source, but I don’t remember hearing it through decades of my life. Then all of a sudden, it showed up.

I know my father was not familiar with the usage either because once he came into a room, asking what it was about disrespect as a verb. At the time that would have meant he had spent seven decades of his life being unaware of it . . . and he had taught English.

Come to think of it, Rodney Dangerfield got no respect; he never claimed anyone disrespected him. Now, there’s an authority on the matter.