I use both these words and would be interested in knowing their history.
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
Thanks Katy. I found the listing for facetious, but can’t locate one for persnickety. Where can I look up the etmyology of that word?
Carolyn
My memory isn’t all that grand, but I suspect it may have been part of the long list of words that was "ephemerated".
-Tim
For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more… and realize that men’s hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words. - JRR Tolkien
I just remembered!
We definitely did discuss this before, because I remember Grant bringing up the fact that it originated with Scottish pernickity or some such—without the ‘s’—and is still used that way there.
