Friday 21 September 2007

The Pedant's Apprentice

If you're on the Interweb and a bit bored (a not unlikely combination), try doing a search on 'The Pedant's Apprentice', and look up some of the comments.

I have no idea whether there is just one person or maybe thousands using this alias, but the sheer number and accuracy of comments made by the person (or people) using that alias are absolutely astounding.

5 comments:

Tim Worstall said...

It is Dearieme under another name.

Anonymous said...

Should that be "number .. is" or "number .. are"?

Anonymous said...

I think that that first comment was probably by The Pendant's Apprentice really.

Mark Wadsworth said...

I knew I was buggered once I started mixing singular and plural.

Yup, "number ... is" is correct.

Bugger.

Mark Wadsworth said...

In fact, sod it, I've removed the brackets round 'and accuracy' instead.

Does that look better.