Our once expressive language is inexorably being reduced, in mathematical terminology, to its lowest common denominator, with the accent very much on the word ‘common’.
A further example of this is the verb pick, which almost solely pertained to the removal of fruit or flowers. One might also have picked at one’s nose or even at a scab.
Nowadays, it has almost universally deposed the verbs select and choose. In the past, a team was formed via a process of selection — hence the common noun, selector. One chose what to eat, buy, wear or do.
One did not pick. Nor did one ‘go’ for something, as in “go (for) number four” or “go (for) the green”. Go is a verb that signifies the act of leaving or departing.