buzzcen@a... wrote: buzzcen@a... wrote:
> Well, I was the person who said art was derived or related to artifice and > from your description above I still believe it was correct... the words are > very closely related. Now, can you tell me the latin origin of nitpicky?
nit from "nitus," meaning tiny point; picky from "pictere" meaning stick it to 'em
(I took 4 years of Latin, so I know!)
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