| Some pedants do let their love for rules get in the way of free-flowing language. |
| They could easily go to sleep to the murmuring oohs and aahs of connoisseurs and pedants. |
| Purists and pedants alike regularly blench when they see the things even supposedly careful writers do with the apostrophe. |
| No one makes fun of them for talking about adding mice to the cache, because only scholars and pedants remember the word's source. |
| For too long, we linguistic pedants have cringed, watching this phrase used, misused, and abused, again, and again, and again. |
| Mike has hundreds of chip freaks shouting at him, Andrew and myself were overrun with pedants and fools, and Linda sparked some Antipodean fury. |
