Word: pedantic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hangover in the Army. The dude reader first notes a certain irony in the circumstance that the solemn and formidable apparatus of U.S. scholarship has been turned loose on a man who was a great liar in the Mark Twain style and was always surprised if some pedant tried to ride herd on his maverick facts. Stratfordians have unearthed a great many variants- on the spelling of Shakespeare's name; Buffalo Bill's biographer rustles up 14: Coady, Cody, McCoady, etc., and Buffalo Bill probably could not have cared less. He might have resented the fact that Author...
...thesis Kennedy exhibited a touch of the pedant, replete with myriad footnotes and obscure statistics. There were also a few flagrant rhetorical and grammatical errors: "Even Churchill's speeches... was not the vigorous demand that it was come...
Some say the time isn't right, I say the time's just right...." but fortunately the message slipped unnoticed through the stampede of pedant feet finally come to Earth...
moldy fig (jive)-a pedant...