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Pedant's corner: Roberts might also have pointed out that the guns used in the Olympic pentathlon are air pistols, not exactly at the top of Sarah Brady's wish list of firearms to ban.
MatDB, based on PEDANT analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana , provides structural annotations using SCOP domain position specific scoring matrix (PSSM) profiles.
If an American writer quotes a British speaker as saying, “Honor thy father,” it would be arrant nonsense for some pedant to say, “If he is British, he did not say that.
I have few data to support me, and my stamina are not up to long, tedious research, but I have a hunch that media —the main agendum on many a pedant's plate these days—is well on its way to becoming a standard singular noun, except perhaps among hidebound literati and intransigent intelligentsia on various university campi, in style books, and in other blessed receptacles of holy semantic writ.
* Pedant's Corner : the erroneous 85 to 66 percent calculations were almost certainly arrived at by averaging the yearly LCV scores; but LCV calculates a legislator's lifetime score by adding up all his pro-environment votes and dividing that number by the total number of LCV-scored votes that took place while he was in Congress.