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English word
pedant,
which meant a male
schoolteacher at the time. The word
pedant originated from the
French word for "schoolmaster,"
pédant, in the 1560s...
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Grammar ****/spelling **** or
grammar pedant/spelling
pedant is a term for a
pedant who
compulsively criticizes or
corrects others'
grammar mistakes,...
- 2020.
Retrieved 24
November 2021. Kamm,
Oliver (12
December 2015). "The
Pedant: The
sheer usefulness of
singular 'they' is obvious". The Times. Archived...
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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...
- 1 June 2023.
Wales 1996, p. 125. Kamm,
Oliver (12
December 2015). "The
Pedant: The
sheer usefulness of
singular 'they' is obvious". The Times. Archived...
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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...
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tempest of
malignant p****ions," and
referred to the
President as a "repulsive
pedant, a
gross hypocrite, and an
unprincipled oppressor." Callender,
already residing...
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Performer 2001 I Love the 80s
Guest 2003
Double Entry Judge 2004 The
Pedants'
Revolt Guest 2006–2007
Balderdash and
Piffle Presenter 2007
Charlie Brooker's...
- ****van's
Princess Ida (1884), the
Princess comments that "The narrow-minded
pedant still believes/That two and two make four! Why, we can prove,/We women—household...
- 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...
