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Pedantry
Excessive showing of intellect / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Pedant" redirects here. Not to be confused with Pendant.
Pedantry (/ˈpɛd.ən.tri/ PED-en-try) is an excessive concern with formalism, minor details, and rules that are not important.[1][2]
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Fowler's Concise Dictionary of Modern English (1926) recognised that the term pedantry was "relative" and subjective, stating "my pedantry is your scholarship, his reasonable accuracy, her irreducible minimum of education, and someone else’s ignorance".[3]