pet-peeve

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In any case, I'm making available to all, for the first time, my list of pretentious pet-peeve words to avoid.

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  • Another thing about hoarding data, unrelated to session state that is a bit of a pet-peeve of mine is when apps bring in loads of data from the database and process it in-proc, based on the notion that they don't want the DB to be a bottle neck. —  Latest Microsoft Blogs
  • In any case, I'm making available to all, for the first time, my list of pretentious pet-peeve words to avoid. —  Pogue's Posts
  • Just my pet-peeve, I guess; regardless of my views, I always —  Forum
  • One pet-peeve of mine with regard to cinema is the use of accents when the actors are speaking English in place of characters who would otherwise be speaking a foreign language. —  American Madness
  • But I don't hold out much hope for that -- to many big egos and pet-peeve "issues" involved on the part of the other candidates; and they will try to one-up each other (as witness, the Baldwin press release about him being the ONLY "anti-immigration" candidate coming to the press release.) —  Ron Paul Wins! | Campaign for Liberty at the Daily Paul - Blog
 

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