hasogat

• my head is splitting

• to split hairs

• to quibble, to split hairs

• smart

• smart, spalling

• riven

• river

• to jar the ear

• to grate on the ear

• shooting

• smart pain in the side

• to crackle, to log, to split up

• grating, strident

• fault-finder, fault-finding, finical, finicking, finicky, punctilious, to make two bites at a cherry

• fault-finding, niggling

• rheumatism that gets me in the back

• to chew the scenery

• pedantry

• academics

• dryasdust

• tenuous distinctions