Talk:Nitpicking

Latest comment: 4 years ago by Blixton in topic Unclear sentence

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Is Nit Picking a term for something else, like a idiom???? I heard it used and they talked nothing about lice...


Maybe this? http://www.nitpickers.com/nitpicks.shtml Eos4life 08:18, 9 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Ahw, come on, surely you are nitpicking... :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.48.149.3 (talk) 07:28, 27 September 2008 (UTC)Reply

Actually yes, it is solely used for something else like an idiom (-: Itsameno (talk) 23:32, 28 December 2018 (UTC)[1]Reply

References

  1. ^ American Heritage dictionary 2018

Secondary meaning nitpicking missing edit

To be overly concerned about insignificant details. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.23.61.34 (talk) 21:08, 14 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

Unclear sentence edit

In the sentence "As the nits are cemented to individual hairs, they can be removed with most lice combs and before modern chemical methods." it looks like the writer meant " ... cannot be removed ..." Blixton (talk) 00:19, 27 November 2019 (UTC)Reply