Pedantry

Pedantry is not spotting the errors, it is letting them get in the way of the whole.

coquilles 2007

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?

A pernicketiness of pedants 2007

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?

2 posts from March 2007 2007

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?

A pernicketiness of pedants 2007

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

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

Pedantry as “an insistence on reasonable accuracy”.

Link love: language (5) 2009

Labels: How to Write a Book, Pedantry posted by Roger Sutton at 9: 46 AM

Think before you write. Roger Sutton 2009

Pedantry as “an insistence on reasonable accuracy”.

July « 2009 « Sentence first 2009

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