John:
There was a time when I thought that a pedant was someone who looked after in-growing toe nails.
Then I discovered that my dear old mother was going to a gyrocopter to have her feet looked at.
But that was actually a malaprop which I had always thought had something to do with scaffolding.
At least I know that there are two "f"s in paraffin.
I will try to buck up but I suspect that it is too late.
By the way, I can remember reading about the Armstrong Whitworth Argosy in the "Flight" magazine before I joined the RAF. By the time I got on to the manufacturers course at Baginton, it had become the Whitworth Gloster Argosy and by the time I got on to my first squadron, it had become the Hawker Siddeley HS 660 Argosy.
I hope you can forgive me; Eddie won't!