Apologies
Cheers for that buddy, really added a lot to the thread. Perhaps you would like to direct stuff like that to me direct via a PM rather than taking up space on the forum, just don't really see what your post adds to the debate other than trying to make yourself look good and me bad.
I'll hopefully end this here. I've noticed that people criticising grammar, spelling, punctuation etc. on other threads and its boring to be honest, especially on a flying forum, The English Language Rumour Network (ELRuNe) maybe, but not here. Therefore, I'm going to share an anecdote with you.
I was given this piece of advice by a teacher when at school, I was pretty good at history, could always remember dates, significant players etc. and whenever a question was asked I always used to stick my hand up. If anyone got it wrong I used to correct them immediately to curry favour with the teacher. One day the history teacher asked me to wait behind, I did so and he said "Look Stephen, I know you are very clever, big fish little pond and all that. However there is no need for you to try and demonstrate it at every opportunity. By correcting someone, you get a little ego boost and think you've gained extra brownie points with me, but it is so short lived, if they think the Battle of Waterloo took place in 1814 let them believe it, what harm does it do if they think that? By correcting them, they feel stupid and just think 'what an arse' which stays with them quite a bit longer than your little victory ever did."
Anyway I blame bloody Bill Gates, Microsoft Word and the spell checker.
Now, do you spell pedantic with one 'd' or two. As I said, any more comments non thread related please direct them via PM to me.