I enjoyed this follow-up to Geoff Pullum's post about brevity on language log but I'm fighting hard not to get all pedantic about the bit of pragmatics in it.

By the way (he said, following the blogger's digression maxim), a linguist once joked to me that she was a pedant, pronouncing it 'peedant'. I still don't know whether the joke was that she was pedantically pronouncing it 'correctly' or pretending she didn't know how to pronounce it thus revealing that she was an amateur peedant. I wonder why I've never looked it up?

B-)