0 giving too much attention to small details that are not important in a way that annoys other people
This is not a merely pernickety point.
I cannot believe that it would do any harm to issuing houses, although there might be some pernickety, technically-minded accountants who would complain.
Is it really necessary to become so pernickety in these matters as we have become in the past forty years?
It was not because we were pernickety in any sense, but because we are seriously exercised about these matters.
It may be argued that the railways should make this provision on every occasion; but people can be pernickety and difficult.
Instead, we have had the bureaucratic nightmare of pervasive, pernickety controls over every aspect of the shape, size and quality of products.
When we get to that stage we are becoming pernickety and miserable.
It seems to me that we are being unnecessarily pernickety on this point.
