Grammarians may be serious students of language, but they are frequently caricatured as pedants.
This reference also shows that the traditional preference for the elliptical like is every bit as worthy as the pedants' choice of the elliptical ax.
More than anything else, linguistic change is a phenomenon pedants cannot cope with, because they cannot control it.
Purists are pedants insisting on the letter - the 'grammatical' meaning - rather than the spirit of the text.
Does the difference enhance the language, or merely help to keep pedants employed?
A pedant might say that this is a predicament rather than a dilemma; but no matter, the reader will already have gathered that this is an ambitious book.
There no one but a pedant would suggest an immediate attempt to recover that gold by high bank rates or anything of that kind.
The first relates to health spending; it is something of a pedant's point.
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