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Date: 2010-11-07 12:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nerdfury.livejournal.com
Persnickety is a colloquialism of the Scottish pernickety, thought to be a childish onomatopoeia of 'particular.' I found eight instances of use in history.

Hypersnickety, however, doesn't exist in the OED at all. Or any form of it, even!
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