On Monday 23 April 2007, Mike Dwiggins wrote: > pendantic I was wondering what this word means. It means absolutely nothing because it is not a word. This was also the first time I had heard of pedantic. Found this with Google http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=238 The non-word ‘pendantic’ is amazingly popular- over 21,000 ghits. And, as a substitute for ‘pedantic’ it has a delightfully self-undercutting character- anyone who worries that he’s being too pendantic about words can stop worrying! I’m less clear what- if any- semantic reinterpretation is taking place. -- If the word following begins with a vowel, the word you want is... to read the rest of this, go here http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/a.html
