The whole point of that online encyclopedia is to be corrected and amplified by a buzzing cloud-source of amateur pedants. Mr Henderson’s corrections take him about an hour a week, and he does ...

In the context of this rousing set of balanced alliterative couplets (politicians are good at these), Harding's "normalcy" achieved two ends: it popularised the word and it irritated the pedants.

Of course, many of you will point out that despite the continual (and surely exhausting) outrage of pedants online, the twin history of ‘literally’ and ‘figuratively’ is not quite as ...

Language pedants who take pleasure in policing other people’s use of grammar often have an air of respectability about them, but it’s usually a sheen hiding something more pernicious.

The cause of good writing is not served by griping pedants, writes Steven Pinker. Many people have strong opinions on the quality of language today. They write books and articles deploring it ...

Dolly Wells's Agatha Van Helsing, in particular, has got it in the neck from pedants, who are also vexed by the reinvention of the novel's very serious vampire as a bisexual spouting Bond-esque ...

"The pedants picked on in the Boland-Queen study might not have been as humiliated as the poor penguins, but the results seem to me to be unfairly pejorative. Pedants are demonised enough without ...

As for narrow rule-bound grammarians and linguistic pedants, I say: "Beam them down on to their own asteroid Scotty - and don't beam them back." ...