| Purists and pedants alike regularly blench when they see the things even supposedly careful writers do with the apostrophe. |
| There are pedants and bigots who insist that the jug must be stoppered with a corncob. |
| But whence did the pedants get the popish nonsense with which they have corrupted youth? |
| Some pedants do let their love for rules get in the way of free-flowing language. |
| Let prigs and pedants, said he, keep all the nasty manufacture to themselves. |
| Mike has hundreds of chip freaks shouting at him, Andrew and myself were overrun with pedants and fools, and Linda sparked some Antipodean fury. |
