it's not all right to be little-bitty

i wonder if i have some kind of deep-seated problem.  as i was writing the rough draft of my latest, i was conscious of using the word "little" a lot, and of revising in my head as i went, but i didn't really realise how much it got through until i looked at the first comments from isilya.  and then i did a search today.

and removed forty-three instances of the word "little" in the first 36 pages. 

yeah. um. i'll... be over here.

(but what kind of deep-seated problem would it even be?)