English
grammar Nazigrammar Nazi
First use appears c.
A compound of grammar + Nazi ‘one who imposes one's views on others’
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- ‘to carve, scratch’
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Latin grammatica
Vulgar Latin *grammāria
Old French gramaire ‘classical learning’
Middle English gramere
English grammar
German Nationalsozialist ‘National Socialist’
German Nazi ‘a member or (ideological) supporter of the…’
English Nazi
The story
First use appears c. 1991.
Today it means
noun A person who habitually criticizes the grammar and (often) usage in others' speech or writing, often in ways that are sometimes not even linguistically accurate.
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Etymograph / grammar Nazi
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