- p. 120. ISBN 9780868404363.
David Crystal (2016).
Making a Point: The
Pernickety Story of
English Punctuation.
London Profile Books. ISBN 9781781253519...
- 2008 TV
series The Mr. Men Show, he was
renamed Mr.
Persnickety (Mr.
Pernickety in the UK version; both are
another word for fussy) and was
coloured light...
- A girl.
links Sandy,
rolling ground, from Old
English hlinc (ridge).
pernickety From pernicky.
minging literally "stinking", from
Scots "to ming". plaid...
- She
teaches the
children to behave, and
deals with the
fearsome and
pernickety Great Aunt
Adelaide Stitch. In the end the
children become good and decent...
-
Aaron Lewis, the
young son of the
family whose staunch,
fastidiously pernickety adherence to the Order's text word-for-word sees him
express disapproval...
-
words are
difficult to spell. His
companion book,
Making a Point: The
Pernickety Story of
English Punctuation came out in 2015 from
Profile Books (UK)...
-
offshoot "orientation".
pernickety persnickety Persnickety is a late 19th-century
American alteration of the
Scots word
pernickety.
plonk plunk As verb meaning...
- Mary
meets NC's friends; Gielgud, a
gentlemanly chimpanzee; Tinker, a
pernickety opera singer; and Sticks, a
drummer boy.
After climbing the Christmas...
- 120. ISBN 9780868404363. Crystal,
David (2016).
Making a Point: The
Pernickety Story of
English Punctuation.
London Profile Books. ISBN 9781781253519...
- form.
According to
James Lees-Milne the
design was "too eclectic, too
pernickety and too
tasteless to have been a success". Bramante's dome Sangallo's...
