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    David Crystal (section Work)
    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)...
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  • Mary meets NC's friends; Gielgud, a gentlemanly chimpanzee; Tinker, a pernickety opera singer; and Sticks, a drummer boy. After climbing the Christmas...
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  • Robinson Vile Virginia and the Curse that Got Worse (2024), by Issy Emeney Pernickety Boo (2024), by Sally Gardner Awards 2003 Nottingham Children's Book Award...
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  • Wright The Independent, 28 April 1995. "Denied a full pension because of pernickety administrative rules, Wright emigrated in some poverty to raise horses...
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     120. ISBN 9780868404363. Crystal, David (2016). Making a Point: The Pernickety Story of English Punctuation. London Profile Books. ISBN 9781781253519...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Polly Ann (also known as The Little Reformer and Pernickety Polly Ann) is a lost 1917 American silent comedy-drama film produced and distributed by the...
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  • Light-Controlled) people mover or people carrier a minivan or other passenger van pernickety fastidious, precise or over-precise (US: persnickety) Perspex * Trade...
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    of the English Language, and an "American standard" started following the work of Noah Webster and, in particular, his An American Dictionary of the English...
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