picayune

[Thomas Paikeday]

I too have heard it "all my life." And I was raised in India!

James E. Clapp wrote:

> Sallie Lemons wrote:
> >
> > I have heard picayune
> > from the cradle. I was raised in New York City by parents raised in the
> > midwest.
>
> Conversely, I was raised in Iowa by parents from western New York State,
> and I too have heard it from the cradle (which was 1943).
>
> It would indeed be a shame to see this delightful and useful
> word--obviously not a regionalism--disappear.
>
> James E. Clapp