pedant
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To please the pedants among you the original phrase "winter of our discontent" comes from the opening line of Shakespeare's Richard III.
From BBC • Nov. 26, 2022
This, Brennan said, “immediately got the pedants out.”
From Washington Post • Dec. 4, 2021
It will not indulge Pringles pedants, who refuse to acknowledge a product consisting of rice flour and wheat starch mixed into a dehydrated potato base.
From The Guardian • Dec. 5, 2019
“Ironic” is sung in the context of a high school writing workshop and the scene makes a joke from the elephant in the room: decades of pedants nit-picking the song’s misuse of the word “ironic.”
From New York Times • May 16, 2018
Though the pedants are mistaken in insisting that than and as may only be conjunctions, the tree-thinking that motivates their judgment is sound.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing pedant
Fahrenheit 451
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Talk Like Shakespeare Day, List 3
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The Taming of the Shrew
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