Word: grammarian
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Nine times a year Mitch raises a deafeningly militant clatter, pumping from his venerable machine 1,800 copies of the latest issue of the Underground Grammarian, which must rank as the most inflammatory broadsheet to come out of Philadelphia since Tom Paine published Common Sense...
...America. His family is similarly enchanted; one of them chortles at the notion of a liberty so unrestricted that "you can say 'you' to the President." (English is one of the few tongues without familiar and formal pronouns; thus the notion of American freedom begins with the grammarian...
Only one more did--Benjamin Larnel, class of 1716. According to President Leverett, Harvard's last Indian student was "An Acute Grammarian." On top of that he was "An Extraordinary Latin Poet, and a good Greek one." But he did not survive the Cambridge winter of his freshman year...
...demonstrated that sometimes the best way to get what is wanted or needed is simply to take it, regardless of laws or traditions. "Let the politicians stop playing patsy," said a striking New York teacher, who could never be confused with kindly Mr. Chips-or an old-fashioned grammarian. "This is baloney about not having the money. They can dig it up if they want it bad enough...
Bravely, Britain's Anthony Burgess, novelist (A Clockwork Orange) and Joyce scholar (Re Joyce), has threaded the labyrinth, determined to demonstrate that Finnegans Wake is more than just a grammarian's funeral. He has reduced the text by about two-thirds, added an introduction that is admirable for clarity, good sense and erudition, and has placed commentaries here and there to help any dog-Latinist through the Joycean style. Even so, the plain reader (if such exists) will soon find himself in waters deeper than the River Liffey...