Random Word Post – pedant

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I find a random word by flipping through a dictionary or using a random word generator and write a quick – often silly – little post about it. # There’s a random word generator I use, and I was refreshing it for new words. I was getting a bunch of boring words, like “large,” “spirit,” “in,” etc. When “pedant” came up, at first I tried reading it as “pendant.” But pedant is a real word, meaning either a “scholar who makes needless display of his learning, esp. in trifling points of scholarship” or a “dull, narrow-minded teacher.” I’ve had dull teachers, and I’m sure quite a number of them were narrow-minded. As to the other definition, do annoying Star Wars nerds count as scholars?