Jun 22, 2010
A.Word.A.Daywith Anu Garg from Wordsmith persnicketyPRONUNCIATION:(puhr-SNIK-i-tee) MEANING:adjective: ETYMOLOGY:Variant of pernickety (the spelling still used in the UK). Of unknown origin. USAGE:”My father and I are both persnickety. We don’t like noise in the kitchen, and a few grains of salt on a tablecloth make us shiver.” “And what will the filmmakers eventually get for more than 12 hours of painstaking persnickety work?” Explore “persnickety” in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand. -Stanislaw J. Lec, poet and aphorist (1909-1966) |
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