For the pedants

Can't use the link JackyB computer says no.

I'm not going to grin and bear it. If its wrong its wrong.

Piffle!!

There's got to be a happy medium, surely?

It brings to mind this twitter thread that I saw today.
It's a bit long but some of you might enjoy it

twitter.com/CarolBlymire/status/1149805563674583040

I went to the link, it was about table manners. Very interesting.
What they didn't mention, which I feel many people dislike, is eating with your mouth open.

Incidentally, Lucy Kellaway's articles on usage, abusage, gobbledegook in language, is a pedants dream.

Btw: when I was 13 and had just learned the word 'pedant', having had to look it up, I saw it was near to the word 'pederast' the definition of which I did not read.

Later, when my Mother was being picky about something, I said, 'That's what my English teacher calls being a pederast.'
My mother almost fell off her chair with shock.

BradfordLass Ashamed to say I had to Google that one

Me, too, Nina ! You learn something every day on GN!

Link worked for me - interesting, shows how language evolves?
Bertie Ahern , former Taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland was famous for mangling language. Here are a few examples:

It’s all smoke and daggers.

We shouldn’t upset the apple tart.

I don’t think it helps people to start throwing white elephants and red herrings at each other.

There are kebabs out there plotting against us.

We’re not gonna hang anyone on the guillotine.

Farmor15

Love it Farmor15 bet his speeches grabbed everyone's attention

So funny Farmor .
Another souce is Mrs Malaprop, a character in a play by Sheridan.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapropism