Pedants' corner

The place for LT members who keep a piece of chalk in their handbags for correcting badly punctuated restaurant chalkboard menus. For members who would rather leave off their underwear than leave out an apostrophe. If you swear in court on a copy of Eats, Shoots and Leaves, this is the place for you.

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Recent Transgressions #3213 ongelezen / 213rocketjk, woensdag 10:01am
An honorary member?3 ongelezen / 3Crypto-Willobie, oktober 2023
Reoccurence or Recurrence?8 ongelezen / 8frje, februari 2023
Bojangles, Bojangle's, Bojangles', or Bojangles’s?6 ongelezen / 6lilithcat, januari 2023
Grammar Table8 ongelezen / 8andyl, januari 2022
A Pedant's Christmas Carol6 ongelezen / 6Taphophile13, december 2021
Sneak Peak: New Stats6 ongelezen / 6bluepiano, juni 2021
A question of grammar for LT10 ongelezen / 10spiralsheep, juni 2021
The founder of the Apostrophe Protection Society has died2 ongelezen / 2spiralsheep, april 2021
Recent Transgressions #2199 ongelezen / 199thorold, november 2020
Unmatched!3 ongelezen / 3rocketjk, november 2020
Pedant's game3 ongelezen / 3MarthaJeanne, juli 2020
Moses and the comma.1 ongelezen / 1Suspected.Spam, juli 2020
On the confused and confusing idiotic use of "they" as a singular pronoun7 ongelezen / 7proximity1, juni 2020
Current BBC "English"4 ongelezen / 4reading_fox, juni 2020
The Scientific Case for Two Spaces After a Period6 ongelezen / 6proximity1, juni 2020
Royals .. ..12 ongelezen / 12Novak, februari 2020
A pedant in Parliament8 ongelezen / 8dtw42, augustus 2019
Operating manuals for illiterates18 ongelezen / 182wonderY, juli 2019
What happened to this group?50 ongelezen / 50shikari, juli 2019
Free webinar... The Oxford English Dictionary and historical text collections: Discovering new words1 ongelezen / 1Crypto-Willobie, juni 2019
Recent Transgressions232 ongelezen / 232lilithcat, januari 2019
Could someone help with Tag Canonization?12 ongelezen / 12krazy4katz, december 2018
Shibbonymics?1 ongelezen / 1Crypto-Willobie, augustus 2018
Dashes and hyphens (even angled and swung)5 ongelezen / 5dtw42, juli 2018
How is this possible?8 ongelezen / 8.Monkey., februari 2018
"A Grammatical Mea Culpa"3 ongelezen / 3JerryMmm, februari 2018
Dante’s Nine Circles of Hell, Reimagined for Linguistic Transgressions5 ongelezen / 5krazy4katz, november 2017
Who needs help?2 ongelezen / 2Marissa_Doyle, oktober 2017
EU English "Dictionary"7 ongelezen / 7AnnaClaire, oktober 2017
When does buzzword avoidance become dumbing down?21 ongelezen / 21thorold, september 2017
how about this one10 ongelezen / 10thorold, april 2017
On the importance of the Oxford comma:3 ongelezen / 3Noisy, maart 2017
CHRISTMAS1 ongelezen / 1justmum, december 2016
Its only 7:15 a.m.40 ongelezen / 40Collectorator, september 2016
Words that ought to exist (but don't - yet)36 ongelezen / 36bluepiano, augustus 2016
But - - I didn't write what I do.3 ongelezen / 3LolaWalser, februari 2016
At least12 ongelezen / 122wonderY, augustus 2015
The Thinking Thing52 ongelezen / 52Noisy, augustus 2015
Would you want this group to be your publisher?9 ongelezen / 9Muscogulus, augustus 2015
Sublime erroneousness3 ongelezen / 3CliffordDorset, juli 2015
I'm so "Prideful" and "Transparity"21 ongelezen / 21varielle, juli 2015
NASA-SPEAK. A whole new language.75 ongelezen / 75jjwilson61, juli 2015
Why spelling matters!11 ongelezen / 11thorold, juli 2015
Terrible fates6 ongelezen / 6abbottthomas, juni 2015
"The world today is neither"7 ongelezen / 7Muscogulus, mei 2015
Tense about tenses3 ongelezen / 3PossMan, april 2015
Touchstones7 ongelezen / 7reading_fox, februari 2015
Pet peeves lll - The amalgamation.378 ongelezen / 378ScarletBea, februari 2015
Christmas ghosts6 ongelezen / 6EricJT, januari 2015
Smart Alec answers to daft questions34 ongelezen / 34thorold, januari 2015
Quotation marks5 ongelezen / 5dtw42, januari 2015
Am I being too pedantic?59 ongelezen / 59darrow, januari 2015
Garden path sentences4 ongelezen / 4darrow, december 2014
It's that apostrophe again124 ongelezen / 124rocketjk, december 2014
A feast for pedants both grammarians and typesetters.57 ongelezen / 57Studedoo, november 2014
There is a sense in which6 ongelezen / 6Jonny-Hoochie-Pants, november 2014
A certain use of the comma70 ongelezen / 70Novak, november 2014
Woe is me13 ongelezen / 13rocketjk, oktober 2014
Inflammatory language31 ongelezen / 31CliffordDorset, oktober 2014
Are dress and frock synonyms in UK?35 ongelezen / 35Novak, oktober 2014
Annoying North American words216 ongelezen / 216PossMan, september 2014
The Pedants' Revolution7 ongelezen / 7darrow, september 2014
Hmmm... / Oh Yeah?2 ongelezen / 2thorold, september 2014
When does strongest not mean strongest?8 ongelezen / 8housefulofpaper, september 2014
How to become uncurious2 ongelezen / 2CliffordDorset, september 2014
"This" is now plural apparently!8 ongelezen / 8bluepiano, september 2014
Are you puzzled pedants?31 ongelezen / 31dtw42, september 2014
"Film's Richard Attenborough has died"5 ongelezen / 5Oandthegang, september 2014
Poisonous or venomous?15 ongelezen / 15barney67, september 2014
The death of 'fewer'26 ongelezen / 26thorold, september 2014
We're Through !26 ongelezen / 26white-van-man, september 2014
Bad Dream Leads Florida Man to Allegedly Beat His Girlfriend28 ongelezen / 28PhaedraB, augustus 2014
It's "drivel," not "dribble."24 ongelezen / 24SimonW11, augustus 2014
info16 ongelezen / 16darrow, augustus 2014
Flooring the Groundless26 ongelezen / 26krazy4katz, juli 2014
Group Theme Song!5 ongelezen / 5darrow, juli 2014
What do you think of this article?12 ongelezen / 12EricJT, juli 2014
Without Fail.14 ongelezen / 14thorold, juni 2014
Pronunciation225 ongelezen / 225Muscogulus, juni 2014
Bashful?11 ongelezen / 11Novak, juni 2014
You was there.. ..60 ongelezen / 60BoMag, juni 2014
The Ground Floor21 ongelezen / 21thorold, juni 2014
A certain plan6 ongelezen / 6rocketjk, mei 2014
Confessions of a recovering pedant8 ongelezen / 8thorold, mei 2014
Literally a Bombshell50 ongelezen / 50krazy4katz, april 2014
Definite and indefinite articles to be abolished7 ongelezen / 7thorold, april 2014
That word doesn't mean what you think it means.19 ongelezen / 19JerryMmm, maart 2014
Calibrating Nonsense8 ongelezen / 8CliffordDorset, maart 2014
"Impact" as a verb76 ongelezen / 76CliffordDorset, maart 2014
On postmodernspeak3 ongelezen / 3thorold, februari 2014
'For' Preposition and Conjunction7 ongelezen / 7CliffordDorset, februari 2014
Create your own neoliogisms27 ongelezen / 27jjwilson61, februari 2014
Word or phrase usage2 ongelezen / 2thorold, februari 2014
The pointless use of the ast*r**sk!69 ongelezen / 69Booksloth, februari 2014
We usen't to say we didn't use to5 ongelezen / 5suitable1, januari 2014
Teach Pedantry!40 ongelezen / 40Novak, januari 2014
News to me...7 ongelezen / 7jbbarret, januari 2014
Excessive use of "porn"17 ongelezen / 17AsYouKnow_Bob, januari 2014
off of13 ongelezen / 13matthewmason, januari 2014
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