[Grammar] Is this sentence correct

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His pedantic behavior while eating in the restaurant irritates others in the group.

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It's only correct if he keeps criticising the spelling and punctuation of the menu and correcting the grammar of the staff and his fellow diners.

Please note that a better title would have been His pedantic behaviour.
 
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Thanks. But I wanted to say the person keeps arguing about what to eat at what time I.e.kind of a bookish thought belief. How can that be written?
 

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That sounds more obsessional than pedantic.
 

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Consider pernickety​.
 

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Or "persnickety" in AmE.
 

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I don'r know why the "s" was added, but the etymology dictionary traces it to the late 1800s.
 
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