Verboticism: Speakrighter
DEFINITION: n. A person who constantly corrects other people's grammar. v. To habitually correct the grammar of everyone with whom you speak regardless of the social context or the minuteness the perceived error.
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Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: speek-rite-ur
Sentence: It's, like, impossible to talk at Mary. Always correcting me, she is. She's a speakrighter determined to make me speak righter.
Etymology: speak, right, speech writer
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OZZIEBOB - 2008-03-26: 17:36:00
Dylan Thomas said, 'British broadcasters speak as if they had Elgin's marbles in their mouth,"