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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 1721 Views
What the dickens?! Nate - 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM 1304 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM 1191 Views
Re: Pay Nate - 14/06/2011 06:13:33 PM 1244 Views
P.S. Shakespeare was probably a time traveller. *NM* Nate - 14/06/2011 06:16:30 PM 542 Views
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I may have a lead Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:21:33 PM 1242 Views
But, of course. Palatine - 13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM 1247 Views
Re: But, of course. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:42:34 PM 1178 Views
Re: But, of course. Palatine - 14/06/2011 05:42:36 PM 1189 Views
Yes. Rebekah - 13/06/2011 05:19:05 PM 1234 Views
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I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Legolas - 13/06/2011 05:22:33 PM 1320 Views
Re: I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:46:41 PM 1197 Views
i *hate* dickens. temeraire - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM 1313 Views
Re: i *hate* dickens. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:48:28 PM 1073 Views
sorry i didn't reply - forgot about this. temeraire - 25/06/2011 02:40:51 PM 1358 Views
Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM* Tim - 13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM 596 Views
Hard Times is one of my favorite Dickens novels Larry - 13/06/2011 11:43:18 PM 1176 Views
Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies? Tom - 14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM 1155 Views
I am not a fan of Hard Times, either. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:49:02 PM 1190 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Darth_Katie - 13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM 1292 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:50:57 PM 1215 Views
Yes, but it's one concept! Darth_Katie - 14/06/2011 06:58:45 PM 1233 Views
That's easy. No. Wibble - 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM 1260 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM 1114 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Wibble - 14/06/2011 10:26:02 PM 1299 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:29:04 PM 1340 Views
Oh... jh - 13/06/2011 07:24:02 PM 1210 Views
Re: Oh... Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:53:15 PM 1193 Views
only great expectations Foxhead - 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM 1172 Views
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Very un-dickensian answers Stephen - 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM 1195 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM 1332 Views
That was meant to be a pithy sarcastic comment. *NM* Stephen - 14/06/2011 06:17:45 PM 732 Views
Shocking. *NM* Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:26:09 PM 560 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 1215 Views
In which country? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:59:04 PM 1221 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey? Tom - 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM 1281 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM 1301 Views
Can you please find that word? Tom - 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM 1174 Views
Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM 1250 Views
None of those. It was a thoroughly odd word. Tom - 15/06/2011 02:25:31 PM 1095 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM 1198 Views
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They are Larry - 14/06/2011 07:23:38 PM 1240 Views
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Some were, but most were short fictions or short novels Larry - 14/06/2011 11:09:53 PM 1166 Views
I'm considering picking up Our Mutual Friend. Yay or nay? *NM* RandAllThor - 15/06/2011 12:43:52 AM 1189 Views
Yes. It's one of his more complex and rewarding novels. Larry - 15/06/2011 01:19:51 AM 1092 Views
It is good Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:50:56 AM 1253 Views
Yes nossy - 14/06/2011 12:23:19 AM 1250 Views
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A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM 1197 Views
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why bother/ They made them all into movies *NM* random thoughts - 15/06/2011 06:09:35 PM 564 Views
Have you seen any Dickens? *NM* Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:37 PM 535 Views
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All of them. *NM* ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:14:01 PM 510 Views
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Yes. ranagrande - 19/06/2011 09:44:37 PM 1311 Views
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