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[antares]

> <grin> OOR, a "nit" is the egg of a louse, or sometimes, a young louse.
> Picture the monkeys going through each other's fur, taking out parasites.
> But we've sort of forgotten that picture, and use it for people who use
> a large magnifying glass to look for itsy, bitsy problems or weaknesses,
> especially in someone else's work or way of doing something.
> 
One more question, I vaguely seem to remember to have asked the same thing a
long time ago...
What is the 'wit' in nit wit?

Could it be, that it has something to do with the Dutch word 'weten'  >>> to
know?
In that case, a nit wit is a 'niet weter', a not know-er.
WE also have the word 'betweter', short for : beter weter', meaning 'better
know-er'.....

Antares,

Amsterdam, Holland


PS.

English and old Dutch are actually very close, you know...