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Parts of Speech: Essays on English, 1901)
"Despite the exacerbated protests of the upholders of authority and tradition, a living language makes new words as these may be needed; it bestows novel meanings upon old words; it borrows words from foreign tongues; it modifies its usages to gain directness and to achieve speed.
Often these novelties are abhorrent; yet they may win acceptance if they approve themselves to the majority.
"To 'fix' a living language finally is an idle dream, and if it could be brought about it would be a dire calamity."
(Brander Matthews, "What Is Pure English?" 1921)
Today's Peevers
"Language peevers write for one another. They are not really writing for the larger public; they do not expect to be heeded by the larger public, and it would not be desirable if they were. Their identities are predicated on the belief that they are an elect, purists holding up the flickering candle of civilization amid the rabble. They write for one another to reinforce this status. If everyone wrote as they prescribe, their distinction would vanish.
"Actually, there is a small additional audience of aspirants to the club: English majors, journalists, teacher's pets in whose minds a handful of shibboleths lodge, to be applied mechanically and unintelligently thereafter. But the great unwashed public pays no attention and does not care, except to the extent that they have been schooled to feel vaguely uneasy about the way they speak and write." (John E. McIntyre, "Secrets of the Peevers." The Baltimore Sun, May 14, 2014)
The Grammaticaster Tradition
Grammaticaster is a pejorative term for a grammarian, especially one who's concerned with petty matters of usage.

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  "Не tells thee true, my noble neophyte; my little grammaticaster, he does: it shall never put thee to thy mathematics, metaphysics, philosophy, and I know not what supposed sufficiencies; if thou canst but have the patience to plod enough, talk, and make a noise enough, be impudent enough, and 'tis enough." (Captain Pantilius Tucca in The Poetaster, by Ben Jonson, 1601)
  
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  "Nor have I much troubled their phrase and expression. I have not vexed their language with the doubts, the remarks, and eternal triflings of the French grammaticasters."
  

(Thomas Rhymer, The Tragedies of the Last Age, 1677)

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  "Such idiots, despite the rise of "scientific' pedagogy, have not died out in the world. I believe that our schools are full of them, both in pantaloons and in skirts. There are fanatics who love and venerate spelling as a tom-cat loves and venerates catnip. There are grammatomaniacs; schoolmarms who would rather parse than eat; specialists in an objective case that doesn't exist in English; strange beings, otherwise sane and even intelligent and comely, who suffer under a split infinitive as
  

you or I would suffer under gastro-enteritis." (H.L. Mencken, "The Educational Process." The Smart Set, 1922)
- "Purist is the most persistent of the many terms used to describe those people who concern themselves with 'correct English" or 'correct grammar.' Among other epithets, we find tidier-up, precisian, schoolmarm, grammaticaster, word­worrier, prescriptivist, purifier, logic-chopper (H.W. Fowler's word), grammatical moralizer (Otto Jespersen's term for H.W. Fowler), usageaster, usagist, usager, and linguistic Emily Post. All of these seem at least faintly pejorative, some more than faintly so.
"The concern with the improvement, correction, and perfection of the existing language goes back to the 18th century, when the first influential grammars of English were written. There was current at that time a notion that a perfect language existed, at least in theory, and that reformation of the imperfect way existing language was used would lead to that perfection." (Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage, 1994)