====== 'Pernickety' etymology ======

>1808 (//pernicktie//, in Jamieson), of persons, "precise; fastidious; fussily particular, especially about trifles," an extended form of Scottish //pernicky//, which is of uncertain origin, perhaps somehow from //particular//. "Association with the knick group of words ... may have been vaguely present" [OED].\\ \\ Source : [[https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=pernickety|Online Etymology Dictionary]]

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