On Monday 23 April 2007, Mike Dwiggins wrote: > When I first saw it in school back in the "Gasp" 60's it > was a polite way of saying "not trying to be an asshole" > but, I have been described as that many times. > > Mike > > linuxmaillists@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > 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. Here is an interesting read on it from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedant -- 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