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pedantry

Synonyms

Noun

1. ostentation

2. fanfare

Usage
Charlatans & Bores - The New York Review of Books
‘On Pedantry’ by Arnoud S.Q. Visser review - History Today
Five things you need to know today, and you're doing it wrong - The Business Journals
The pedant’s progress through history - The Spectator
“Bloodless Pedantry” - The Ideas Letter
Word of the Day: pedantic - The New York Times
In defence of pedantry - The Observer
New Books, by Dan Piepenbring - Harper's Magazine
Why corporate lawyers always win - The Economist
What We Are Reading Today: ‘On Pedantry’ by Arnoud S. Q. Visser - Arab News
Pedants may be annoying, but you couldn’t do without us - The Telegraph
Why the SIGA guidance is a triumph of statecraft over procedural pedantry - GhanaWeb
Nitpick away — we provide a safe space for pedants - The Times
Pedantic Stan, The Comics Fan, hops over the English Channel, to Germany! - downthetubes.net
Word of the day: Pedantic - MSN
Readers Debate: Does Grammar Pedantry Perpetuate Ignorance About Language? - The Atlantic
So your a pedant? It's nothing to be proud of - The Guardian
In defence of grammar pedantry - The Conversation
Loosen Up, Pedants - National Review
Between pedestrian and pedantic - The Economic Times
Eventually, All Pedantry Is Linguistic Pedantry - Mother Jones
Attention Grammar Pedants, the English Language Isn’t Logical - Literary Hub
Are you a grammar pedant? This might be why - The Guardian
The Editor's Desk: Busted for pedantry; Public art watch - Online Athens
The Magic Of Language: Stephen Fry, Pedantry, And Racism - Patheos
Grammar sticklers may have OCD - blogs.illinois.edu
Are You a Pedant? - National Review
What grammar pedants and fashion victims have in common - The Conversation
Who do you think you’re apostrophising? The dark side of grammar pedantry - The Conversation
COVID or Covid? The comfort of pedantry at a time of national crisis - The Guardian
The Obsessive Pedantry of the Global Right Is So Fucking Dumb - VICE
Talking Pinball and Pedantry with Richard Herring - VICE
Great Moments in Pedantry: Fact-checking "Don't Fear the Reaper" - Boing Boing
Neither antsy nor pedantic - City Pulse
Terrible news for pedants as Merriam-Webster relaxes the rules of English - The Guardian
Pedant or professional: what does ‘good grammar' really mean? - SEC Newgate UK
Are you AI, or simply a grammar pedant? - Financial Times
Why I, a 15-year-old grammar pedant, took on Tesco - The Guardian
Philologists, pedants and obsessives: how crowd-sourcing created the Oxford English Dictionary - The Conversation
Rescuing Grammar from the Pedants - New Ideal
The Best Response to Grammar Nazis, Ever - The New Republic
'Vice' Is a Goofy and Pedantic Dick Cheney Biopic - The Atlantic
Courtauld's pedantry clouds Albrecht Dürer's visionary genius - The Guardian
Win Butler's rebellion against ESPN's pedantry meant he had to go - The Guardian
“That Little Sob in the Spine”: Vladimir Nabokov in Conversation - Los Angeles Review of Books
Great Moments in Pedantry: James and the Giant Peach needs moar seagulls - Boing Boing
The pedants' revolt: lament for a golden age of grammar that never existed - The Guardian
Pedants have their uses, but why such fury over apostrophes? | Catherine Bennett - The Guardian
Pedants of the world unite - spiked-online.com
The pedants’ pedant: why the Apostrophe Protection Society has closed in disgust - The Guardian
Defending Dr. Johnson - The Imaginative Conservative
Pedants, The Feeling Is Real. Hearing Bad Grammar Can Physically Stress You Out - IFLScience
Irregardless of your agreeance: language pedants are crying foul too often - The Guardian
Hey, journalists: Give the pedantic, pointless Donald Trump fact-checking a rest - CBC
Pedants forgive Waterstones over apostrophe - The Week
Dan Snow breaks down historical inaccuracies in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon trailer: ‘It ain’t a documentary’ - The Independent
Retired English teacher receives letter from Trump, corrects mistakes and sends it back to White House - The Independent
#WritersBlock: Pundits, pedants and purists • - MarkLives.com
This Pedantic Elon Musk Tweet Perfectly Illustrates Why Nobody Can Stand Him Anymore - Futurism
Great Moments in Pedantry: How "Jurassic Park" got Velociraptors wrong - Boing Boing
Best Of Londonist: Tube Pedantry, The Great Fire And Pink Floyd - Londonist
David Lister: It’s more than just pedantry to insist on a left-handed McCartney - The Independent
Pedantic Semantic: Or, I Do Not Think This Word Means What You Think It Does - Science 2.0
'Hypercorrection Is Not Simply Being Fussy or a Nitpicker or a Pedant' - VOA - Voice of America English News
The pedant: don’t get too possessive about the apostrophe - The Times
People are sharing the ridiculous arguments they have gotten into at pub quizzes - Indy100
Ecuador's radical grammar pedants on a mission to correctly punctuate graffiti - The Guardian
Pedantic Stan, The Comics Fan collection reprinted - downthetubes.net
Observer review: The Pedant in the Kitchen by Julian Barnes - The Guardian
Roslyn Petelin: In defence of grammar pedantry - RNZ
Why Wikipedia's grammar vigilante is wrong | David Shariatmadari - The Guardian
Boris Johnson's letter put an apostrophe in the wrong place and grammar pedants can't handle it - Indy100
Sorry for the pedantry, but ... - Royal Gazette | Bermuda
Upset by a rogue apostrophe? Join my pedants’ revolt - The i Paper
The Pedant: Incredibly, I think it’s time for sticklers to relax - The Times
The Pedant: don’t be superceded by the sticklers on orthography - The Times
Bad News, Language Pedants: Poll Shows Most People Are Cool With Improper Grammar - HuffPost
The Pedant: There’s nothing wrong with using the phrase ‘old adage’ - The Times
When to let it go: a former dictionary editor's last word on pedantry - SMH.com.au
Charles Babbage Once Sent The Most Pedantic Letter To Tennyson, Mathematically "Correcting" His Poem - IFLScience
Why Are Grammar Pedants Getting Their Knickers In A Twist Over This TfL Ad? - Londonist
Why punctuation is not just for pedants - The Irish Times
Weekly told to republish correction after “pedantic” ex-MP’s complaint - HoldtheFrontPage
Pedantic about grammar? It's not the most flattering reflection of your personality, says science - Stylist
Ninnies, Pedants, Tyrants and Other Academics (Published 1991) - The New York Times
John Richards, self-confessed pedant and founder of the Apostrophe Protection Society – obituary - The Telegraph
The Pedant - The Times
These Movie Misquote T-Shirts Are Guaranteed To Annoy The Pedant In Your Life - HuffPost UK
Hay Festival 2013: Oxford professor asks for grammar pedants to relax - The Telegraph
Pedants' Corner, Week 1: spotted in time - The i Paper
No ‘pedantic rigidity’, reiterates Supreme Court - BusinessLine
“A Pedantic And Hyper-Technical Approach Would Cause Damage To The Very Concept Of Consumerism”- SC Holds ... - Verdictum
‘Pedantry, logic and flair’: how GCHQ won the Falklands War with crucial intercepts which revealed battle plan - The i Paper
No ‘pedantic’ approach in condoning delay: HC - The Hindu
Fundamental duties are not just pedantic, they are key to social transformation: CJI - The Hindu
Britain is a nation of pedantic busybodies... so how can we complain about EU red tape? - The Telegraph
Pedants' Corner, Week 4: getting sniffy over USPs - The i Paper
Emma Thompson's attack on slang: the pedants' battle may be lost - The Telegraph
Fiona Rintoul: Debate over being in or on Scottish islands is too pedantic even for grammar fans - Press and Journal
Courts To Avoid Pedantic Approach In Application For Supplementing Grounds For Delay Condonation, Unless... - Live Law
Foreign Language Equivalents
Foreign Language Equivalents of 'pedantry'
Language Equivalent   Language Equivalent
French    Spanish
Misspellings - Typos
peddantry,   oedantry,   pdantry,   peedantry,   pedabtry,   [edantry,   pedantru,   pedntry,   pedanttry,   edantry,   pedanyry,   prdantry,   pedsntry,   pefantry,   ppedantry,   pedanntry,   pednatry,   pedanrty,   pdeantry,   pedantty,   pedantey,   pedaantry,   epdantry,   pedatnry,   pedantryy,   pedantrry,   pedanry,   pedamtry,   pwdantry,   pedantr,   pedatry,   pesantry,   peantry,   pedanrry,   pedanty,   peadntry,   pedantyr,   pedantrt
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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