Date:  Fri, 24 Mar 1995 14:07:57 CST

From:  "Donald M. Lance" <ENGDL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MIZZOU1.BITNET>

Subject: Re: Picayune



I recall 'picayune' from the 1940s and 1950s. In Texas.

    Idle curiosity got the better of me, and I looked in an 1875

Noah Webster's dictionary:

  Picayune. n. [from the language of the Caribs.]

  A small coin of the value of 6-1/4 cents.



I also remember wondering about the term back then. Lotta little

picayune details in etymologies. This sentence would have a different

connotation, for me, with the word 'picky'. Picayuneness isn't necessarily

picky in my personal lexicon. Definitely not a new word.

For whatever this is worth.         DMLance