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Ezra Pound, for all his provincial pedantry, in his Canto LXXXI as printed on p. 526 of The New Oxford Book of American Verse, writes didactically:
The last-named book is largely a spoof on linguistic pedantry, and I fear that Saussy III has been drawn in.
There is, of course, method in his madness (it has been claimed that puns introduce lunacy into language, but it was there all along), and capering wordcaprice in his pedantry.
"GEORGE BUSH!" roared the press corps, delighted to detect such an elemental boo-boo in the professor's usually unassailable pedantry.
The issue of pronoun agreement might be laid at the door of the feminists' misguided interference with the forces of language, resulting in a nervous rejection of the masculine pronoun as the neutral one; but, in truth, the sustenance of the singular nature of words like each, everybody, everyone, etc. is probably pedantry, for sense and logic are not sacrificed by changing them to plurals, with the added benefit of avoiding the dreaded he/his/him, regarded by feminists as the bearer of the stigma of male machismo.