BIND Woes A Second Thought

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On Monday 23 April 2007, Mike Dwiggins wrote:
> pendantic

I was wondering what this word means. It means absolutely 
nothing because it is not a word. This was also the first 
time I had heard of pedantic.

Found this with Google

http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=238

The non-word ‘pendantic’ is amazingly popular- over 21,000 
ghits. And, as a substitute for ‘pedantic’ it has a 
delightfully self-undercutting character- anyone who 
worries that he’s being too pendantic about words can stop 
worrying! I’m less clear what- if any- semantic 
reinterpretation is taking place.

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