http://wordie.org/words/pertinacious Comments for the word 'Pertinacious' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/pertinacious#comments <br />I bet this is related to <a href="/words/tenacious">tenacious</a>. Maybe that will help me separate it from all of those other per-par-pen words: <br /><br /><a href="/words/pernicious">pernicious</a><br /><a href="/words/parsimonious">parsimonious</a><br /><a href="/words/penurious">penurious</a><br /><a href="/words/perspicacious">perspicacious</a><br /><a href="/words/persnickety">persnickety</a> (well, that one's easy) - hey, I'm just finding that <a href="/words/pernickety">pernickety</a> is a word! What the heck? Oh, it means the same as persnickety, just not the "colloquial" meaning. Hmm.<br /><br /><a href="/words/impecunious">impecunious</a><br /><br /><br /><br /> Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:02:24 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/pertinacious#comments