I added a bounty to this question during Chol HaMoed but it hasn't received any answers. Now that the chag is over, does anybody have anything to say about it?
@kouty, @DoubleAA I realized over yom tov that בגו is in the berich shemey during the taking out of the sefer torah and the english siddur translates it as "among".
@Daniel Yeah, it's not much worse than s'firas haomer. (Neither really seems right when taken literally.) I was pointing it out not because it seems wrong, just because it seems unusual (and also to check whether others thought I was reading it right).