offbeat vs pedant

offbeat

adj
  • Unusual; unconventional; not ordinary. 

noun
  • The beats not normally accented in a measure. 

  • An unconventional person, someone who does not follow the beat, who chooses not to conform. 

pedant

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

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

adj
  • Pedantic. 

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