Being pendantic

[Joel S. Berson]

I thought Bill meant he was no longer waiting.

Joel

At 9/28/2005 10:15 AM, you wrote:
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>Poster:       "Joanne M. Despres" <jdespres at MERRIAM-WEBSTER.COM>
>Subject:      Re: Being pendantic
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>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.)
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>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:
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> > 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?
> > >
> > >--
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> > >     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.
> >
> >
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> > Dennis R. Preston
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