[BITList] Today's wwftd is... pernickety

[John Feltham]

the worthless word for the day is: pernickety

[origin unknown]
chiefly Brit. : characterized by excessive precision and
attention to trivial details; fussy, meticulous,
persnickety

"Sich fellers are troubled with a vertigo in their
consciences, and are never very pernikety how they steer
if it leads 'em tu profit."
  - J. Downing, Life of Andrew Jackson  (1834)

""No, the word is not persnickety; it's pernickety, "
I can hear him saying to me. Only a pernickety person,
like him, might say such a thing."
  - Zontee Hou, Pieces Apart  (2003)



ooroo

Bad typists of the word, untie.




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