carper vs pedant

carper

noun
  • A person who habitually carps, who talks too much and regularly finds fault. 

pedant

noun
  • A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar. 

  • A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning. 

adj
  • Pedantic. 

How often have the words carper and pedant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )