Converse of object

• annoy: Tautology: Always add ' back ' to words like return or revert in order to reverse their meaning and annoy pedants.

Adjective modifier

• only: Only pedants claim that learning from books is education.

• cartographic: The text on " Munros defined " provides enough material to keep the cartographic pedants chattering for months to come.

• smug: Bryson highlights the lunacy of applying Latin grammar to a Germanic language and the smug, slimy pedants it has given us.

• comic: Certainly there hangs about him a slight air of the comic pedant.

• old: I hate to sound like an old pedant but this is the normal definition of ' unpredictable ' not ' random ' .