The Pedant's Revolt

[Trout]

Never mind geek tests! This thread's a pedant's paradise!

I was thrilled with my purchase of the splendid book The Pedant's Revolt.

It's a wonderful piece of work for know-it-all bastards like me. It's filled with little snippets of information for the discerning pedant.

For example, did you know Jonah wasn't swallowed by a whale? The Bible mentions a fish, but no whale.

Also, the so-called "balcony scene" in Romeo and Juliet doesn't involve a balcony. The stage direction specifies a window.

Yes, I'm a sad, annoying git and proud of it.

However, I'm also a little worried. You see, I've spotted a mistake in the book. At one point it says "grizzly" when it means "grisly".

I'm also concerned about the placing of that apostrophe in the title.

My question to the board is: am I insane?

Are there any fellow pedants out there?

- Trout

[petemaskreplica]

That's two questions. And the answer to both of them is yes. :p

[Proudhuff]

I seem to remember a whole thread dedicated to such pedantic musings...
anyway you can't be a pedant you don't speak in a whiney Basildon voice and collect stamps, only cylinder blocks mind

and it is in the right place and no I didn't believe a man could fly.
Huffski

[I, Cosh]

I assume the title refers directly to the author (who doesn't care whether anyone else is listening) hence it is the Revolt of a single Peasant.

And yes, I did know that about Jonah. Isn't that where Leviathan fits in?

[I, Cosh]

NO.
YES.

[Carlsborg Expert]

What we think is best is that you read the whole of the Bible arcane*. Or at least a Gideons.


* We meant to say, was; 'Again'. amen

How enlightening. As a pedant. That is.

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

I always get irritated when someone uses the words "pleaded" or "lighted".

"Pled" and "lit" are the proper words.

[johnnystress]

I felt "obligated" to reply to this post,
although I "could of" ignored it.

But that would have been the "heighth" of bad manners.


I know some people "could care less".

[Richmond Clements]

"very unique" gets right on my tits.

[johnnystress]

tit's

[petemaskreplica]

The misuse of the word "hopefully" is one of the great scourges of our age.

[Funt Solo]

There over their with they're ... shoes.

[Dudley]

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough.
Others may stumble, but not you, On
Hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard; a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead;
For goodness sake don't call it deed.
Watch out for meat and great and threat.
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.)

A moth is not a moth in mother; nor both in bother, broth in brother;
And here is not a match for there,nor dear and fear for bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose
(just look them up) and goose and choose,
And cork and work, and card and ward,
And font and front, and work and sword,
And do and go, and thwart and cart.
Come, come! I've hardly made a start.

A dreadful language? Man alive! I mastered it when I was five!
I will teach you in my verse
Words like corps, corks, horse and worse.
For this phonetic labyrinth
Yields monkey, donkey, ninth and plinth,
Wounded, rounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.

Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dies and diet, lord and word;
Earth and hearth and clerk and herd;
Evil, devil, tomb, bomb, comb;
Doll, roll; dull, bull; some and home.
Finally - for I've had enough -
Through, though, thorough, plough, cough, tough,
While hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is give it up.

[Art]

Getting really pedantic about guns is a great way to convince people you're a total psychopath.

[Devons Daddy]

Friuts (that cant be right)they use it all the time out here.

anyway sounds like a book for sad loosers!

dont happen to have the author or relevant details at hand do you there sire?
the sort of thing which would make it possible for me to NEVER order a copy from Boarders.