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pedant

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Noun

1. bookworm

2. scholastic, scholar, scholarly person, student

Usage
The pedant’s progress through history - The Spectator
‘On Pedantry’ by Arnoud S.Q. Visser review - History Today
Why corporate lawyers always win - The Economist
New Books, by Dan Piepenbring - Harper's Magazine
Of Prophets And Pedants: A "New" Split Among Evangelicals? - Patheos
“Bloodless Pedantry” - The Ideas Letter
In defence of pedantry - The Observer
Pedants may be annoying, but you couldn’t do without us - The Telegraph
Nitpick away — we provide a safe space for pedants - The Times
So your a pedant? It's nothing to be proud of - The Guardian
Why the SIGA guidance is a triumph of statecraft over procedural pedantry - GhanaWeb
What We Are Reading Today: On Pedantry by Arnoud S. Q. Visser - Arab News PK
It's National Grammar Day, not National Pedant's Day - blogs.illinois.edu
Are You a Pedant? - National Review
Why I, a 15-year-old grammar pedant, took on Tesco - The Guardian
No one is better informed than he about grammar - The Times
Are you a grammar pedant? This might be why - The Guardian
Are you AI, or simply a grammar pedant? - Financial Times
In defence of grammar pedantry - The Conversation
What grammar pedants and fashion victims have in common - The Conversation
ON SNOOZE - Notes On Patriarchy Pedantry - polyesterzine.com
Loosen Up, Pedants - National Review
Word of the day: Pedantic - MSN
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
Pedant or professional: what does ‘good grammar' really mean? - SEC Newgate UK
Modern tribes: the period drama pedant - The Guardian
The Pedant's Revolt: Know What Know-It-Alls Know by Andrea Barham - Publishers Weekly
Pedants have their uses, but why such fury over apostrophes? | Catherine Bennett - The Guardian
'Hypercorrection Is Not Simply Being Fussy or a Nitpicker or a Pedant' - VOA - Voice of America English News
The pedants' revolt: lament for a golden age of grammar that never existed - The Guardian
Attention Grammar Pedants, the English Language Isn’t Logical - Literary Hub
Junichi Suwabe to Voice Alien Pedant in ULTRAMAN Season 2 - The Tokusatsu Network
Readers Debate: Does Grammar Pedantry Perpetuate Ignorance About Language? - The Atlantic
Let's eat grandpa: Commas are not a matter of life and death, even in the law - blogs.illinois.edu
Philologists, pedants and obsessives: how crowd-sourcing created the Oxford English Dictionary - The Conversation
The pedant: don’t get too possessive about the apostrophe - The Times
The Magic Of Language: Stephen Fry, Pedantry, And Racism - Patheos
Pedants of the world unite - spiked-online.com
Rescuing Grammar from the Pedants - New Ideal
Pedant has a calling to smash The Clash ‘typo’ - The Times
The Pedant: Incredibly, I think it’s time for sticklers to relax - The Times
Eventually, All Pedantry Is Linguistic Pedantry - Mother Jones
Who do you think you’re apostrophising? The dark side of grammar pedantry - The Conversation
Boneless wings are not wing enough asserts litigation-happy pedant - Boing Boing
The Obsessive Pedantry of the Global Right Is So Fucking Dumb - VICE
The Pedant: don’t be superceded by the sticklers on orthography - The Times
The Pedant: There’s nothing wrong with using the phrase ‘old adage’ - The Times
Looks like you're sliding inexorably into figuration, drawled the pedant 2005 - Artnet
Don't You Dare Use 'Comprised Of' On Wikipedia: One Editor Will Take It Out - NPR
The Best Response to Grammar Nazis, Ever - The New Republic
Defending Dr. Johnson - The Imaginative Conservative
Irregardless of your agreeance: language pedants are crying foul too often - The Guardian
The Editor's Desk: Busted for pedantry; Public art watch - Online Athens
The Pedant in the Kitchen by Julian Barnes - The Times
John Ruskin: Sex-averse, squeaking pedant, or radical political influencer? - The Times
COVID or Covid? The comfort of pedantry at a time of national crisis - The Guardian
Great Moments in Pedantry: Fact-checking "Don't Fear the Reaper" - Boing Boing
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
Did the Merriam-Webster Dictionary Just Recognize 'Irregardless' as a Word? - Snopes
Doctor Who Teases 4 Exciting New Time Lords For RTD's New Era (Including A Deep-Cut Return) - ScreenRant
Grammar sticklers may have OCD - blogs.illinois.edu
Pedant's corner: why the term 'gigafactory' grates - Autocar
Why Wikipedia's grammar vigilante is wrong | David Shariatmadari - The Guardian
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
Don’t Be a Grammar Troll - The Walrus
Great Moments in Pedantry: James and the Giant Peach needs moar seagulls - Boing Boing
Jon Richardson, review: Pedant’s well worth the fuss - London Evening Standard
Pedant’s revolt - The Spectator Australia
Great Moments in Pedantry: The odds of your existence - Boing Boing
Why punctuation is not just for pedants - The Irish Times
Boris Johnson's letter put an apostrophe in the wrong place and grammar pedants can't handle it - Indy100
Ninnies, Pedants, Tyrants and Other Academics (Published 1991) - The New York Times
People are sharing the ridiculous arguments they have gotten into at pub quizzes - Indy100
Why Are Grammar Pedants Getting Their Knickers In A Twist Over This TfL Ad? - Londonist
Roslyn Petelin: In defence of grammar pedantry - RNZ
Hay Festival 2013: Oxford professor asks for grammar pedants to relax - The Telegraph
Pedants' Corner, Week 1: spotted in time - The i Paper
Diary: Shenton’s Sir-liness shows Mark of a true Pinter pedant - The Stage
Pedants' Corner, Week 4: getting sniffy over USPs - The i Paper
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
WATCH: Ahmad “Sauce” Gardner gifts icy number 8 pedant to Aaron Rodgers - Sports Tiger
Vivo launches X Note Aerospace edition with a Meteorite-carrying pedant - NewsroomPost
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'pedant'
Language Equivalent   Language Equivalent
French    Spanish
Misspellings - Typos
ppedant,   peant,   epdant,   pedat,   pedaant,   pedantt,   pedanr,   pesant,   pedsnt,   edant,   peedant,   pedabt,   pdeant,   pedany,   pednat,   pedamt,   pefant,   pwdant,   pdant,   prdant,   [edant,   pedatn,   pedan,   pednt,   pedannt,   oedant,   peadnt,   peddant
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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