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 ...

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 ...

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I tried to explain that it was a slip of the tongue. I own a Subaru Outback now, I replied, and it’s basically the same model as the one I bought in 1988. But some couldn’t let it go. “You ...

It looks like I may have been on to something, On Monday, I exhorted i readers to rise up and join my campaign against the debasement of grammatical standards, which I coined the pedants' revolt.

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.

Call it the circular firing squad or the pot calling the kettle black or the hoisting of the jackanapes on his own petard (actually, please call it that last one). Years ago, esteemed Hit & Run ...

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 ...

is a Latin-born numeric reference blah blah blah pedants am i right When I use the term "decimate" in reference to what's happened to the Democratic Party in the era of Barack Obama, I admit that ...

For those who find themselves wincing whenever they hear a “could of” instead of a “could have”, or a “less” when it should be “fewer”, it may not just be a passing annoyance. A ...

Many studies have found that children have a ready ability to learn languages. But it's been a lingering question as to whether this simply reflects a large capacity, or whether the brain is ...

More than 10 years after Waterstones “enraged pedants everywhere” by dropping the apostrophe from its name, it has been “forgiven”, said The Times. The bookshop chain made the alteration ...