pedantry
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Such pedantry is perhaps why Malaysian durians have earned a special place on the Chinese table.
From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026
Here’s my favorite recent example of this sort of unhelpful pedantry:
From Slate • Nov. 4, 2024
Even now, lawmakers take this responsibility with a seriousness sometimes bordering on pedantry.
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2024
I’m deeply dismayed that the perennial paragon of pedantry, George F. Will, failed at either simple arithmetic or calendar history.
From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2022
Winston Churchill did not, as legend has it, reply to an editor who had corrected his prose with “This is pedantry up with which I will not put.”
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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