I'm fed up with being stuck in this corner - can't we have a pedants' lounge...

[tearinghairout]

with squashy red sofas, and cockails & snacks served by silent subcservients? With a huge one-way mirror so that we can sneer at watch the rest of MN?

(Could it have been 'fed up of' - discuss)

lol skidoodle "No one puts pedants in the corner!"

We will have a fight over whether lounge is a verb or a noun, and what type of verb or noun, and when and by whom it may be used and in what tense and then we'll all die of shock when someone types would of anyway.

I like the corner. Pedantry is not for the weak. You need a wall or two behind you.

i seem to remember there was a reason a corner was chosen anyway.I'll have a search for the thread, although I suppose it could of been deleted.

Pedants have to be in a corner because they are fighting Bad English with their backs to the wall.

Do you think that is the first time anyone has died from pedantry?

'could of been deleted', StealthPolarBear?

Could of?

oh no - in order to prevent being barred from the Pedantry I demand you refer to WanderingTrolley's post of 13:47, and note my

I believe it was deliberate.
A true pedant is incapable have of doing such a thing.

I always assumed it was corner in homage to private eye, which has had a pedants / pedant's / pedants' corner for years.

(With similar wrangling over the '. Last I saw they had settled on ped'ants.)

I can't find the corner thread anywhere, can anyone else remember it?

back in a tick
that Jackie and Idris still think I wrote 'could of'

no

Oh no not a lounge... How about a drawing room?

Apologies for offensive use of 'lounge' and lol at 'sitting room', but they don't say First Class Passengers' Sitting-Room do they?

I forget how common I am sometimes; I was brought up (brung up) in a family that uses words like serviette, dessert & toilet, which I have since learned are not tolerated in polite society. I am happy to be enlightened, and put my chav roots behind me. Pedants' sitting-room sounds very civilised. (Still fancy lounging, though. In palazzo pants.)

Actually I think lounge is acceptable for what you described in your op tearing, with the bar and waiters.

It's only the use of the word lounge to describe a room in one's house that is wrong .

Yes some sort of executive lounge would be lovely!

I am ill. Can I come into the pedants' spa for some TLC and appropriately-place punctuation?

We're hard core. We don't need a spa.

[Sorry for self] I do!

[Perking up] But I need decent spelling, punctuation and grammar more.

You need a good workout with some apostrophes, that's what you need.

I'd like a smoking room

Perhaps we need a Spar if we're having a lounge though.

For the Fruitshoots.

Oooh, a smoking room.

'Pedantry Please'. We could have our own slot on Radio 4.

p.s. I find it thrilling and terrifying to post on these threads in case I make a mistake.