Fernando Lázaro Carreter (

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, April 13, 1923 — March 4, 2004, in

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) was a Spanish

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and literary critic. Carreter worked to improve the way the

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is spoken and written, and penned the hugely popular 1997 book '' El Dardo en la Palabra'' (''The Dart in the Word''), a collection of articles he wrote on linguistic gaffes in the media. Lázaro Carreter was a member, occupying the Seat "R", of the prestigious Royal Spanish Academy ( Real Academia Española), the language's official referee, from 1972 until his death, and was its president for seven years, 1991-1998. He taught at the

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. He died on 4 March 2004 in Madrid at aged 80 from a

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