A Century of Bugaboos

Language may change, but pedantry is forever. And as Jan Freeman demonstrates in Ambrose Bierce’s Write It Right: The Celebrated Cynic’s Language Peeves Deciphered, Appraised, and Annotated for 21st-Century Readers, so too is the tradition of modern-day pedants’ picking apart the outmoded irritants of the quibblers who came before them. Here's the full blog post.