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And, incidently, it's "nit pick." Nits are the eggs of body lice. They are quite tiny, and anyone who picks them out of the hair of, say, school aged children, knows how very exacting one must be to do so. Someone who nit picks is looking at the very smallest "infractions" of rul...

According to "The Online Etymological Dictionary" the term "spade" is "probably from It. spade, pl. of spada 'sword, spade,' from L. spatha 'broad, flat weapon or tool,' from Gk. spathe 'broad blade'." Bottom line: "Spathology" is a perfectly acceptable word, ...