Jonathon Owen
arrantpedantry.com
Jonathon Owen
@arrantpedantry.com
Editor • Writer • Linguist • Ironic meta-pedant • Villain • Cat person
Blog: https://www.arrantpedantry.com
Merch: https://arrantpedantry.myspreadshop.com
The good news: Scientists have found a way to regrow teeth.

The bad news: They're all AI slop megateeth.
January 5, 2026 at 7:55 PM
December 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Merry Christmas from Zelda, who is very pleased with her present of an empty box.
December 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
What's wrong, Babe? You've barely touched your eggnog puke cake.
December 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Occasionally it does, but it usually hops around so that the dialogue box moves out of the way of the result in the document. It's weirdly infuriating!
December 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I've got the CSI: Miami meme in Scrabble.
December 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
New-to-me entry in the annals of verbification: "rake-stepped"

gizmodo.com/fallout-ai-r...
December 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM
December 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
My mom actually found one once by chance, so of course she had to by it.

bsky.app/profile/jamb...
December 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The -th ending for plurals was a regular part of the verb paradigm in Old English, so the real question is, when did it disappear from the dialects that became Standard English?

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/macian
December 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I think this is a record. We have twenty-two pies for eighteen people.
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Did everyone else make these paper springs from the edges of continuous-feed paper whenever you printed a banner?
November 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Maybe this would also be a good time to mention that everything in my shop is 20 percent off this weekend? I've got shirts, mugs, stickers, and much more for word nerds and grammar lovers. No coupon code needed! arrantpedantry.myspreadshop.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
But even in Disney movies, broccoli is clearly for bludgeoning!
October 31, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I love this note on the pronunciation of Canaan. It's such a perfect example of Wikipedia editor pedantry.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan#...
October 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I thought the "You're doing it wrong" genre of articles had peaked years ago, but "You're breathing wrong" has to set some kind of new high-water mark. www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/h...
October 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
How do you get it to tell you that you got a reverse rainbow? I just get this.
October 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
September 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
September 16, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Well, that's helpful! hudi.apache.org/docs/concepts/
September 15, 2025 at 10:09 PM
It's epigraphs all the way down.
September 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
One fun part of my job is that I get to research and write about the animals on the covers, though of course it's always heartbreaking to discover how many of them are vulnerable or endangered, like this cute little wallaby.
September 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I was just scrolling through Hulu and did a little double take at this.
September 8, 2025 at 5:43 AM
September 5, 2025 at 5:42 PM