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Pedantry is not spotting the errors, it is letting them get in the way of the whole.
coquilles 2007
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Pedantry is one of the curses of language: dependant is a noun and dependent is an adjective; practice is a noun and practise is a verb; is James Bond licenced or licensed to kill?
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Pedantry is one of the curses of language: dependant is a noun and dependent is an adjective; practice is a noun and practise is a verb; is James Bond licenced or licensed to kill?
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Pedantry is one of the curses of language: dependant is a noun and dependent is an adjective; practice is a noun and practise is a verb; is James Bond licenced or licensed to kill?
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Again, in “On Pedantry”, Hazlitt declares that “The power of attaching an interest to the most trifling or painful pursuits … is one of the greatest happinesses of our nature”.
william hazlitt | the man of letters « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Labels: How to Write a Book, Pedantry posted by Roger Sutton at 9: 46 AM
The Magic School Bus Visits the Bowels of the Unconscious Roger Sutton 2009
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Pedantry as “an insistence on reasonable accuracy”.
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Labels: How to Write a Book, Pedantry posted by Roger Sutton at 9: 46 AM
Think before you write. Roger Sutton 2009
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Pedantry as “an insistence on reasonable accuracy”.
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Again, in “On Pedantry”, Hazlitt declares that “The power of attaching an interest to the most trifling or painful pursuits … is one of the greatest happinesses of our nature”.
March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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