Till death doth a pedant put to rest
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Lawyers, public servants, academics and everyone whose work involves writing live in dread of the linguistic pedant. The syntax pedant who believes that all sentences must comply with strict subject-verb rules. Who believes that even to occasionally split an infinitive is a crime. And those who won’t let you commence a sentence with a conjunction.
Sometimes they take pedantry to an extreme.