- show of learning. Look up
pedant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The
English language word
pedant comes from the
French pédant (used in 1566 in Darme...
- 2020.
Retrieved 24
November 2021. Kamm,
Oliver (12
December 2015). "The
Pedant: The
sheer usefulness of
singular 'they' is obvious". The Times. Archived...
- the
comedy Le
pédant joué
takes place and
whose prin****l, Jean
Grangier would inspire the
character of Granger, the
pedant of Le
pédant joué, but his...
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Linguistic prescription, also
called prescriptivism or
prescriptive grammar, is the
establishment of
rules defining preferred usage of language. These...
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Linguistics Conference.
Wales 1996, p. 125. Kamm,
Oliver (12
December 2015). "The
Pedant: The
sheer usefulness of
singular 'they' is obvious". The Times. Retrieved...
- others,
either absolutely or
about a
standard variety. For example, some
pedants insist that
sentences in
English should not end with prepositions, a ban...
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courage to say as an
author what he felt as a man. ... He was
neither a
pedant nor a bigot. ... In
treating of men and manners, he
spoke of them as he...
- (management)
Micromanagement Nanny state Obsessive–compulsive
personality disorder Pedant "Control
freak Definition & Meaning". Dictionary.com.
Retrieved 2022-05-13...
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third editor, Naber,
found him contemptible.
Historians have seen him as a '
pedant and a bore', his
letters offering neither the
running political analysis...
- that "Gielgud
dominates all with an
unexpected caricature of a
mincing pedant, his
noble features blurred so as to
mimic a
fussed and
fatuous egghead...
