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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 1672 Views
What the dickens?! Nate - 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM 1250 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM 1139 Views
Re: Pay Nate - 14/06/2011 06:13:33 PM 1192 Views
P.S. Shakespeare was probably a time traveller. *NM* Nate - 14/06/2011 06:16:30 PM 518 Views
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I may have a lead Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:21:33 PM 1201 Views
But, of course. Palatine - 13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM 1196 Views
Re: But, of course. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:42:34 PM 1120 Views
Re: But, of course. Palatine - 14/06/2011 05:42:36 PM 1142 Views
Yes. Rebekah - 13/06/2011 05:19:05 PM 1182 Views
Re: Yes. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:45:04 PM 1250 Views
Re: Yes. Rebekah - 14/06/2011 09:01:07 PM 1233 Views
I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Legolas - 13/06/2011 05:22:33 PM 1269 Views
Re: I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:46:41 PM 1153 Views
i *hate* dickens. temeraire - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM 1265 Views
Re: i *hate* dickens. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:48:28 PM 1032 Views
sorry i didn't reply - forgot about this. temeraire - 25/06/2011 02:40:51 PM 1309 Views
Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM* Tim - 13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM 566 Views
Hard Times is one of my favorite Dickens novels Larry - 13/06/2011 11:43:18 PM 1136 Views
Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies? Tom - 14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM 1107 Views
I am not a fan of Hard Times, either. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:49:02 PM 1145 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Darth_Katie - 13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM 1240 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:50:57 PM 1165 Views
Yes, but it's one concept! Darth_Katie - 14/06/2011 06:58:45 PM 1175 Views
That's easy. No. Wibble - 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM 1198 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM 1064 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Wibble - 14/06/2011 10:26:02 PM 1222 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:29:04 PM 1290 Views
Oh... jh - 13/06/2011 07:24:02 PM 1160 Views
Re: Oh... Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:53:15 PM 1148 Views
only great expectations Foxhead - 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM 1124 Views
Re: only great expectations Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:54:29 PM 1235 Views
mmmm Foxhead - 14/06/2011 03:53:15 PM 1124 Views
Very un-dickensian answers Stephen - 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM 1148 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM 1278 Views
That was meant to be a pithy sarcastic comment. *NM* Stephen - 14/06/2011 06:17:45 PM 706 Views
Shocking. *NM* Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:26:09 PM 538 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 1161 Views
In which country? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:59:04 PM 1171 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey? Tom - 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM 1229 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM 1255 Views
Can you please find that word? Tom - 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM 1120 Views
Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM 1200 Views
None of those. It was a thoroughly odd word. Tom - 15/06/2011 02:25:31 PM 1047 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM 1137 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:03:39 PM 1146 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 14/06/2011 04:59:11 PM 1114 Views
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They are Larry - 14/06/2011 07:23:38 PM 1191 Views
Re: They are Camilla - 14/06/2011 09:18:38 PM 1099 Views
Some were, but most were short fictions or short novels Larry - 14/06/2011 11:09:53 PM 1113 Views
I'm considering picking up Our Mutual Friend. Yay or nay? *NM* RandAllThor - 15/06/2011 12:43:52 AM 1138 Views
Yes. It's one of his more complex and rewarding novels. Larry - 15/06/2011 01:19:51 AM 1042 Views
It is good Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:50:56 AM 1205 Views
Yes nossy - 14/06/2011 12:23:19 AM 1208 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ClubCaved - 14/06/2011 05:45:06 PM 1195 Views
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Edwin Drood Ending ClubCaved - 15/06/2011 03:55:01 PM 1119 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:51:53 AM 1237 Views
A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM 1137 Views
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Re: A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 04:05:08 PM 1301 Views
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Re: What the Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:10 PM 1163 Views
why bother/ They made them all into movies *NM* random thoughts - 15/06/2011 06:09:35 PM 537 Views
Have you seen any Dickens? *NM* Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:37 PM 507 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:17:01 PM 1150 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:04:35 PM 1244 Views
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All of them. *NM* ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:14:01 PM 489 Views
Are you sure? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:34:26 PM 1146 Views
Yes. ranagrande - 19/06/2011 09:44:37 PM 1269 Views
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