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.
Speakrighter
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
Points: 1385
Comments: Speakrighter
OZZIEBOB - 2008-03-26: 17:36:00
Dylan Thomas said, 'British broadcasters speak as if they had Elgin's marbles in their mouth,"