Being pendantic

[Joanne M. Despres]

Someone I know who uses "pendantic" also refers to my employer
as "Merriman-Webster."  (I respond with the normal pronunciations,
but they don't seem to take root.)

Funny -- I always figured it was poetic license.  (He's a published
poet.)

Joanne

On 28 Sep 2005, at 9:24, Dennis R. Preston wrote:

> This would appear to be similar (progressive rather than regressive)
> to the phenomenon David Stampe noted years ago in his paper "Why Some
> People Live in the Uninted States."
>
> dInIs
>
> >In the thread "cubic VVV", "Mullins, Bill" wrote:
> >
> ><snip>
> >
> >></pendant off>
> >
> >Google gives ~21,300 hits for "pendantic", many clearly in place of
> >"pedantic". Is it really possible to be properly pedantic while writing
> >pendantic, i wonder?
> >
> >--
> >David Bowie                                         http://pmpkn.net/lx
> >     Jeanne's Two Laws of Chocolate: If there is no chocolate in the
> >     house, there is too little; some must be purchased. If there is
> >     chocolate in the house, there is too much; it must be consumed.
>
>
> --
> Dennis R. Preston
> University Distinguished Professor
> Department of English
> 15C Morrill Hall
> Michigan State University
> East Lansing, MI 48824
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