Today’s Rhymes With Orange:

Oh my. Arnold the fussy grammarian. (Arnold is an intrinsically funny name, it seems.)
But that should be garmmrian, not grammarian.
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July 30, 2012 at 8:46 am |
The name “Arnold” was certainly an important part of comic actor Arnold Stang’s persona. Remember Arnold Stang?
July 31, 2012 at 5:41 am |
Oh yes, I remember Arnold Stang. From Wikipedia:
July 31, 2012 at 3:42 am |
Garmmrian makes me wonder if you’ve used other derived forms yet. I imagine the adjective would be garmmratical, the adverb garmmratically; there may be little need for garmmraticality, but there it is anyway.
July 31, 2012 at 5:44 am |
Garmmratical is especially nice, since it has a rat in it.