The League Of Obsessive Nitpickers
Created | Updated Oct 12, 2005
For all those seeking nothing less than perfection in Edited Guide Entries...
We Give You the League Of Obsessive Nitpickers, or L.O.O.N.
Our goal is simple; to leave no typo unturned, no bracket misplaced and no grammar issue unchallenged. We will infest Editorial Feedback until every miscarriage of grammar, categorisation and redundancy is sorted.
Become a LOONie
To become a LOONie, a person who obsessively nitpicks, to help stop it or to swap nit stories, post below. And don't correct this page's grammar - it's not funny. Really.
- Members
- Jodan - The notorious categorizer and LOON-brarian
- Peet the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman
- Hypatia the Pedant of Barcodes
- Pimmsaloonie
- Anhaga, the Canadian
- Count Zero, A LoONie
- RhoMuNuQ - a MaStEr CaPiTaLiZeR
- Owlofdoom - Who never joins a club without proving himself
- Wildman The willpowerless
- KerrAvon - who spends half her workday in Editorial Feedback!
- logicus tracticus philosophicus - Likes Cheese
- Gosho - his PR reputation does not require any introduction from me.
- Number Six - not Number 6... the style guidelines would never allow it!
- SchrEck Inc - Qualified
The LOON-brary
- Titivillus - the Typo Demon
- Correct Use of the Apostrophe In English
- Punctuation - a Quick Guide
- English Strong and Weak Verbs - a Very Brief Overview
- The Oxford English Dictionary
- Onomatopoeia
- Oddities of English
- Neologisms
- American Slang
- Cockney Rhyming Slang
- An Explanation of l33t Speak
- The Origins and Common Usage of British Swear-words
- English Slang
- Puns and Other Word Play
- Swearing
- Estuary English
- A Guide to British-English Spelling for Americans
- Thesaurus
- The Great Vowel Shift
- Gender-Free Pronouns
- Footnotes
- Jargon and its Siblings
- The Language of the Cube Farm
- Etaoin Shrdlu
- Typesetting for Beginners - What's the Point?
- The Language of the Cube Farm
- On-line Dictionaries, Thesauri, Style Guides, etc
- The Longest Word
- Lost Words
- Nothing
- Stuff
- The Dark Roots of Blond(e) in The English Language
Selected Pretentious Literary Terminology