Word: pedanticism
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The Author, like many of his countrymen, is less pedantic than he looks but more than he pretends. A publisher's assistant since he was 18 (he was 19 years with Chatto & Windus), he retired to his Surrey cottage six years ago to give all his time to his...
Five years ago Evelyn Waugh wrote an unusual first novel (Decline & Fall) which scandalized some readers, tickled many more. In 1930 came Vile Bodies, more of the same, which seemed to establish its author as one of the really funny satirists of the day. But his next, Black Mischief, sandwiched...
Der Angriff, personal organ of ecstatic Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Paul Josef Goebbels. last week found a new villain to hiss at-the stolid, pedantic Press of Switzerland. ''The Swiss newspapers," roared Der Angriff, "are read only by those in Germany who have already emigrated in spirit...
"Correct English" is an unrealistic, pedantic legend, and the quicker we get rid of it, the better. For authorities I refer the Doctor to any elementary course in linguistic science, and to Dr. Edward Sapir, [Sterling professor] of the Yale University Department of Anthropology and Linguistics and head of a...
Would not Purist Mac have been more pure, less "solecistic," even at the risk of being somewhat didactic, or even pedantic, had he said, ''Such errors in grammar are inexcusable . . .?"