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Now, just some background – I had an interview scheduled for today as well and I’m kind of persnickity about these things.
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Perhaps I should perpetrate persnickity puns prior to posting provoking prose?
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Plenty of days you can see pronghorn, eagles and huge persnickity (at least for me lol) trout ...
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Plenty of days you can see pronghorn, eagles and huge persnickity (at least for me lol) trout ...
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| Reply | Permalink that's true. and for what it's worth, if people want to be persnickity and not take into account how things are actually perceived, then clinton never actually called obama himself naive and irresponsible. she called his answer naive and irresponsible.
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In practice, it means a lot of persnickity cutting and pasting and trying to make scenes flow nicely so I can get back to moving forward with the damned story; all the while being interrupted about about nine phone calls, someone picking up a freecycled mattress, two zombies asking for spare brains, and a UPS guy.
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2007
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Not to be persnickity or anything, but while it is fine to refer to a warship as "the Toronto", it is not to refer to it as "the HMCS Toronto".
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Yesterday when I was writing my post for the day it just up and vanished right as I was ready to post it and I had to start all over. .reminding me that computers can be persnickity any darn time they want.
When You Lose a Different Kind of Everything Harry 2008
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And I thought political methodologists could be persnickity ...
Archive 2006-06-01 2006
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And I thought political methodologists could be persnickity ...
overtone commented on the word persnickity
unwarrantied or uncommon preference. Slang?
April 2, 2009
Mamatina3 commented on the word persnickity
I must say this word at least once a day!
October 4, 2010