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Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla Send a noteboard - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM
Pick one word that you connect with Dickens. What is it?
Damn I wish I could remember it. It's a word that no one uses and when I saw it I thought it was a misprint of "prevaricate" because it was obviously along the same lines in meaning, but it was like perstication or pervastication or something like that.

This one. Really. It's bothering me. A lot. I looked through the damn book and can't find it. I don't remember what it is. This is my native language and so it's bothering me a WHOLE HELL OF A LOT.


Perhaps "perstreperous", which means noisy?
Or "pervestigate", which means to investigate something quite closely?
Or "pervicacious", which refers to someone stubborn?

None of those look that much like "prevaricate" or "pervastication", though; but it is the closest a quick look at the OED could do.
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Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 13/06/2011 04:46:11 PM 1781 Views
What the dickens?! Nate - 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM 1390 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM 1266 Views
Re: Pay Nate - 14/06/2011 06:13:33 PM 1319 Views
P.S. Shakespeare was probably a time traveller. *NM* Nate - 14/06/2011 06:16:30 PM 578 Views
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I may have a lead Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:21:33 PM 1308 Views
But, of course. Palatine - 13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM 1321 Views
Re: But, of course. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:42:34 PM 1247 Views
Re: But, of course. Palatine - 14/06/2011 05:42:36 PM 1269 Views
Yes. Rebekah - 13/06/2011 05:19:05 PM 1302 Views
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Re: Yes. Rebekah - 14/06/2011 09:01:07 PM 1362 Views
I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Legolas - 13/06/2011 05:22:33 PM 1408 Views
Re: I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:46:41 PM 1277 Views
i *hate* dickens. temeraire - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM 1388 Views
Re: i *hate* dickens. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:48:28 PM 1135 Views
sorry i didn't reply - forgot about this. temeraire - 25/06/2011 02:40:51 PM 1421 Views
Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM* Tim - 13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM 639 Views
Hard Times is one of my favorite Dickens novels Larry - 13/06/2011 11:43:18 PM 1249 Views
Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies? Tom - 14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM 1239 Views
I am not a fan of Hard Times, either. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:49:02 PM 1265 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Darth_Katie - 13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM 1371 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:50:57 PM 1284 Views
Yes, but it's one concept! Darth_Katie - 14/06/2011 06:58:45 PM 1321 Views
That's easy. No. Wibble - 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM 1385 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM 1205 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Wibble - 14/06/2011 10:26:02 PM 1373 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:29:04 PM 1391 Views
Oh... jh - 13/06/2011 07:24:02 PM 1285 Views
Re: Oh... Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:53:15 PM 1266 Views
only great expectations Foxhead - 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM 1239 Views
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Very un-dickensian answers Stephen - 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM 1261 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM 1400 Views
That was meant to be a pithy sarcastic comment. *NM* Stephen - 14/06/2011 06:17:45 PM 770 Views
Shocking. *NM* Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:26:09 PM 601 Views
Please tell me they haven't started letting people out of High School without making them read CD? Cannoli - 13/06/2011 10:16:10 PM 1296 Views
In which country? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:59:04 PM 1294 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey? Tom - 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM 1368 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM 1368 Views
Can you please find that word? Tom - 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM 1252 Views
Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM 1336 Views
None of those. It was a thoroughly odd word. Tom - 15/06/2011 02:25:31 PM 1160 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM 1275 Views
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They are Larry - 14/06/2011 07:23:38 PM 1326 Views
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Some were, but most were short fictions or short novels Larry - 14/06/2011 11:09:53 PM 1247 Views
I'm considering picking up Our Mutual Friend. Yay or nay? *NM* RandAllThor - 15/06/2011 12:43:52 AM 1249 Views
Yes. It's one of his more complex and rewarding novels. Larry - 15/06/2011 01:19:51 AM 1150 Views
It is good Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:50:56 AM 1328 Views
Yes nossy - 14/06/2011 12:23:19 AM 1334 Views
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Edwin Drood Ending ClubCaved - 15/06/2011 03:55:01 PM 1235 Views
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A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM 1267 Views
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why bother/ They made them all into movies *NM* random thoughts - 15/06/2011 06:09:35 PM 602 Views
Have you seen any Dickens? *NM* Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:37 PM 570 Views
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All of them. *NM* ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:14:01 PM 537 Views
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Yes. ranagrande - 19/06/2011 09:44:37 PM 1377 Views
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