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Photograph by Giorgio Sommer (1834–1914); Famille napolitaine — a Neapolitan mother searching for lice in her son's hair.. Nitpicking is a term, first attested in 1956, that describes the action of giving too much attention to unimportant detail.
Phil Farrand (born November 5, 1958) is an American computer programmer and consultant, webmaster and author.He is known for his Nitpicker's Guides, in which he nitpicks plot holes and continuity errors in the various Star Trek television programs and movies, and for the creation of Nitcentral, a website devoted to the same activity. [1]
Nitpicking may refer to: . Nitpicking is the action of giving too much attention to unimportant detail.. Nitpicking may also refer to: . Nitpick (Isabelle), a tool of the Isabelle proof assistant
A Diceware word list is any list of 6 5 = 7 776 unique words, preferably ones the user will find easy to spell and to remember. The contents of the word list do not have to be protected or concealed in any way, as the security of a Diceware passphrase is in the number of words selected, and the number of words each selected word could be taken ...
sundry items to purchase, pick up, etc. (e.g. whilst grocery shopping); Britain and US: odds and ends black pudding (US: blood sausage) blag (slang) to obtain or achieve by deception and/or ill preparation, to bluff, to scrounge, to rob, to wing it. A scam, tall story or deception. Derived from the French word blague. [35] bleeder
Simply, the game involves adding a single word to the list that is related to the previous one. Edit the main game or branch section, add a word, enclose it in brackets, update the word count, and save the page. Also, try to avoid miscounting if possible - make sure there are 10 words in at each 10th word!
Just to be a nit-picker, a diaresis and an umlaut (mark) are not the same thing, even though they look quite similar. :) -- Schnee (cheeks clone) 13:13, 3 November 2006 (UTC) I'd say the same is also true for Linkin Park; I have removed them from the examples list.--Wasabe3543 11:56, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
The extremely pointed toe was called a winkle picker because, in England, periwinkle snails ("winkles") were a popular seaside snack which is eaten using a pin or other thin pointed object to carefully extract the soft parts out of the coiled shell. The same practice led to the figurative phrase "to winkle something out".