The Society admits no-one without first considering them. Prospective Fellows are asked to sit a brief preliminary examination before the bursary will accept payment. The examination takes about a minute.

Sit the preliminary examination

Already examined? Proceed without re-sitting.

Fellowship of the Pedants' Society is open to applicants of any background, on payment of the Society's customary fee. On admission, the Fellow receives a typeset Certificate of Fellowship, a Fellowship number entered into the Register, and the right to use the Society's post-nominals (placed correctly).

Proceed to the Society's bursary

A printed edition is forthcoming. Notify me when it is available.

Your name will be rendered on the certificate exactly as entered at the bursary. The Society will not correct it. The Society wishes it noted that it could.

Applications are processed by the Secretary on payment. The digital certificate is dispatched by electronic post within the working day. A printed edition is forthcoming. Fellowship may be withdrawn for conduct unbecoming; see Struck Off and the Conditions of Sale. The Society regards the possibility of expulsion as included in the price.

The Society receives a steady stream of nominations from those who live with a Fellow but are not, themselves, of the temperament. On payment of the customary fee, the Society will despatch the Certificate of Fellowship to the recipient on your behalf, with a brief covering note that does not, as a rule, name the giver unless requested.

The recipient is enrolled in the Register under their own name and may, if they wish, decline the honour. The Society notes that no-one ever has.

Proceed to the Society's bursary

A printed edition is forthcoming. Notify me when it is available.

The recipient's name is entered at checkout, where the Society's form invites the field "Name of Fellow". Please enter the recipient's name, not your own. The name will be rendered on the certificate exactly as entered; the Society will not correct it, and notes that a misspelt recipient is, in the Society's experience, a recipient who frames the certificate anyway, beside a letter of complaint.

For the Society's settled view on the giving of Fellowships within a household, see the Curator's note On Matrimony and the Society.

Gift applications are processed by the Secretary on payment. The certificate is dispatched by electronic post within the working day. Buying for myself instead?