Perhaps there is a niche for Savan as a language maven.

I am not the only language maven to notice this.

As the Christmas holidays approach, language mavens everywhere look for guidance on what new books to give to literate friends.

That was, after all, a time when language mavens were itching to knock some sense into the proles.

With usage so obviously in flux, what's a poor language maven to do?

That's how it seems to a language maven of a certain weight and getting long in the tooth.

But it usually does, and if we did away with rules, how could language mavens ever correct anybody?

Gang at the language maven for errors in my columns last year.

Purists, most language mavens and British diplomats use momentarily to mean "for a moment."

At the end of the day, only adoption by other language mavens will determine how voguism fares.