Word: grammarian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Famous as a strict grammarian and a proponent of clarity in academic writing, Knowles is known for his attention to detail in Faculty matters and being second only to Fox in his ability to manuever through the parliamentary procedure of Faculty meetings...
Safire has reason to be pleased with his gift of glib: his Sunday "On Language" column in the Times magazine has made him the nation's amateur arbiter of usage, or as he puts it, "pop grammarian." He wears the crown lightly, for it is not accidental that one of his six language books is titled I Stand Corrected. As comfortable with punnery as with punditry, Safire is rarely the punctilious schoolmaster in private conversation. True, when a visitor used propinquity to describe two men working in the same law firm, Safire interjected, "Don't you mean proximity?" He insisted...