Talk:Nitpicking

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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]

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^ 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]

[1] American Heritage dictionary 2018

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