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pedant

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Noun

1. bookworm

2. scholastic, scholar, scholarly person, student

Usage
Charlatans & Bores | Clare Bucknell - The New York Review of Books
The pedant’s progress through history - The Spectator
Why corporate lawyers always win - The Economist
“Bloodless Pedantry” - The Ideas Letter
New Books, by Dan Piepenbring - Harper's Magazine
‘On Pedantry’ by Arnoud S.Q. Visser review - History Today
Pedants may be annoying, but you couldn’t do without us - The Telegraph
So your a pedant? It's nothing to be proud of - The Guardian
The pedants’ revolt - The Spectator
It's National Grammar Day, not National Pedant's Day - blogs.illinois.edu
Nitpick away — we provide a safe space for pedants - The Times
In defence of grammar pedantry - The Conversation
Are you AI, or simply a grammar pedant? - Financial Times
Loosen Up, Pedants - National Review
Why I, a 15-year-old grammar pedant, took on Tesco - The Guardian
What grammar pedants and fashion victims have in common - The Conversation
Are you a grammar pedant? This might be why - The Guardian
Terrible news for pedants as Merriam-Webster relaxes the rules of English - The Guardian
The pedants’ pedant: why the Apostrophe Protection Society has closed in disgust - The Guardian
Observer review: The Pedant in the Kitchen by Julian Barnes - The Guardian
Perfecting the Art of Pedantry | Bailey Trela - The Baffler
Pedant or professional: what does ‘good grammar' really mean? - SEC Newgate UK
Attention Grammar Pedants, the English Language Isn’t Logical - Literary Hub
Pedants have their uses, but why such fury over apostrophes? | Catherine Bennett - The Guardian
The pedants' revolt: lament for a golden age of grammar that never existed - The Guardian
Philologists, pedants and obsessives: how crowd-sourcing created the Oxford English Dictionary - The Conversation
Let's eat grandpa: Commas are not a matter of life and death, even in the law - blogs.illinois.edu
Junichi Suwabe to Voice Alien Pedant in ULTRAMAN Season 2 - The Tokusatsu Network
The Obsessive Pedantry of the Global Right Is So Fucking Dumb - vice.com
Why the SIGA Guidance is a Triumph of Statecraft over Procedural Pedantry - The Business & Financial Times
Pedants of the world unite - spiked-online.com
Eventually, All Pedantry Is Linguistic Pedantry - Mother Jones
The pedant: don’t get too possessive about the apostrophe - The Times
Who do you think you’re apostrophising? The dark side of grammar pedantry - The Conversation
Looks like you're sliding inexorably into figuration, drawled the pedant 2005 - Artnet
Readers Debate: Does Grammar Pedantry Perpetuate Ignorance About Language? - The Atlantic
Rescuing Grammar from the Pedants - New Ideal
Boneless wings are not wing enough asserts litigation-happy pedant - Boing Boing
The Editor's Desk: Busted for pedantry; Public art watch - Online Athens
The Best Response to Grammar Nazis, Ever - The New Republic
The Pedant: There’s nothing wrong with using the phrase ‘old adage’ - The Times
10 Impressive Examples Of Dedication To Pedantry - Listverse
The Pedant: don’t be superceded by the sticklers on orthography - The Times
Don't You Dare Use 'Comprised Of' On Wikipedia: One Editor Will Take It Out - NPR
COVID or Covid? The comfort of pedantry at a time of national crisis - The Guardian
Irregardless of your agreeance: language pedants are crying foul too often - The Guardian
Why Wikipedia's grammar vigilante is wrong | David Shariatmadari - The Guardian
Overhead, The Albatross: ‘I’m a pedant, but I’m also stubborn, that’s how it stuck’ - The Irish Times
The Pedant - The Times
#WritersBlock: Pundits, pedants and purists • - MarkLives.com
John Richards, self-confessed pedant and founder of the Apostrophe Protection Society – obituary - The Telegraph
The Pedant - The Times
Great Moments in Pedantry: Fact-checking "Don't Fear the Reaper" - Boing Boing
“Actually, I think you’ll find” – A Purgatory of Pedants - ianVisits
The pedants’ revolt - spiked-online.com
Grammar sticklers may have OCD - blogs.illinois.edu
Did the Merriam-Webster Dictionary Just Recognize 'Irregardless' as a Word? - Snopes
These Movie Misquote T-Shirts Are Guaranteed To Annoy The Pedant In Your Life - HuffPost UK
Ecuador's radical grammar pedants on a mission to correctly punctuate graffiti - The Guardian
Upset by a rogue apostrophe? Join my pedants’ revolt - The i Paper
Jon Richardson, review: Pedant’s well worth the fuss - London Evening Standard
Ninnies, Pedants, Tyrants and Other Academics (Published 1991) - The New York Times
Don’t Be a Grammar Troll - The Walrus
Great Moments in Pedantry: The odds of your existence - Boing Boing
Great Moments in Pedantry: James and the Giant Peach needs moar seagulls - Boing Boing
Why punctuation is not just for pedants - The Irish Times
Pedants' Corner, Week 1: spotted in time - The i Paper
Roslyn Petelin: In defence of grammar pedantry - RNZ
Finnish word for grammar pedants praised - Yle
So pedantry can foil Russian hackers - what a boost for language lovers - The Herald
Hay Festival 2013: Oxford professor asks for grammar pedants to relax - The Telegraph
Meet the 'Grammar Vigilante' of Bristol - BBC
11 apostrophe fails that will enrage the grammar pedant in you - dailyedge.ie
When to let it go: a former dictionary editor's last word on pedantry - SMH.com.au
Indiana Jones filming in Glasgow: Eagle-eyed 'pedant' spots glaring time error on set - Glasgow Live
grammar-pedant-mug - freethoughtblogs.com
Word of the Day: Pedantic - Jagran Josh
Doctor Who Teases 4 Exciting New Time Lords For RTD's New Era (Including A Deep-Cut Return) - ScreenRant
10 'Astounding' Science Facts That Aren't Very Astounding If You're A Pedant – Page 2 - WhatCulture.com
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'pedant'
Language Equivalent   Language Equivalent
French    Spanish
Misspellings - Typos
ppedant,   pesant,   pdant,   pwdant,   pedanr,   pedabt,   pefant,   pedany,   pednat,   peddant,   pedan,   pednt,   prdant,   peant,   pedannt,   edant,   oedant,   pedsnt,   pedaant,   peadnt,   pedamt,   pedat,   peedant,   pedantt,   [edant,   epdant,   pedatn,   pdeant
Words Starting with Letter - 'A'
a a battery a billion
a bit a bit much a capella singing
a cappella singing a couple of a few
a fortiori a good deal a great deal
a horizon a hundred a hundred and one
a hundred thousand a hundred times a kempis
a la carte a la mode a level
a little a lot a million
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