pedantry, grammarian, punster, mumbler, bookman, jackanapes, prig, sneery, fiddlesticks, solipsist, scribbler, nitpicker, luddite, twitcher, wordiness, poltroon, fop, berk, sarcasms, curmudgeon, split infinitive, aristo, simp, ironist, ponce, prolixity, subjunctive, pillock, pathetic fallacy, churl, esthete, controversialist, journalese, sophist, prole, monomaniac, logicians, lexicography, maupassant, versifier, prat, fusspot, scrivener, philosophe, solecism, flatterer, griper, pleb, englishman, jabberwocky, fussbudget, twit, autodidact, grumbler, dotty, max beerbohm, codger, parti pris, lexis, blackguard, antisemite, homophones, etymologist, guttersnipe, squiffy, tuts, nosy parker, blockhead, blighter, ineloquent, nabokovian, snob, prissy, ungrammatically, circumlocution, flibbertigibbet, diphthong, punctiliousness, nincompoop, schwa, sluggard, polymath, empiricist, sayer, boor, freethinker, hemingwayesque, knave, dunderhead, old codger, franglais, poesy, arriviste, rotter, philistine, tautologies, geezer, herbert, boyo, fellah, jape, pedants, fool, bigot, blockheads, coxcomb, fools, imbecile, pretenders, booby, braggart, enthusiast, fanatic, idiot, lout, martinet, infatuated, impecunious, impenitent, sapient, ailing, angered, besotted, bolognese, conscientious, darkskinned, erudite, estimable, exiled, experienced, fastidious, highminded, humiliated, illustrious, intolerant, knowledgeable

purist

captious

intellect, intellectual

bookworm, scholastic