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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 1974 Views
What the dickens?! Nate - 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM 1562 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM 1524 Views
Re: Pay Nate - 14/06/2011 06:13:33 PM 1546 Views
P.S. Shakespeare was probably a time traveller. *NM* Nate - 14/06/2011 06:16:30 PM 682 Views
Re: Pay Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:29:49 PM 1458 Views
I may have a lead Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:21:33 PM 1502 Views
But, of course. Palatine - 13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM 1518 Views
Re: But, of course. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:42:34 PM 1464 Views
Re: But, of course. Palatine - 14/06/2011 05:42:36 PM 1482 Views
Yes. Rebekah - 13/06/2011 05:19:05 PM 1496 Views
Re: Yes. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:45:04 PM 1602 Views
Re: Yes. Rebekah - 14/06/2011 09:01:07 PM 1555 Views
I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Legolas - 13/06/2011 05:22:33 PM 1630 Views
Re: I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:46:41 PM 1470 Views
i *hate* dickens. temeraire - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM 1593 Views
Re: i *hate* dickens. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:48:28 PM 1337 Views
sorry i didn't reply - forgot about this. temeraire - 25/06/2011 02:40:51 PM 1607 Views
Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM* Tim - 13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM 742 Views
Hard Times is one of my favorite Dickens novels Larry - 13/06/2011 11:43:18 PM 1430 Views
Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies? Tom - 14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM 1434 Views
I am not a fan of Hard Times, either. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:49:02 PM 1431 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Darth_Katie - 13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM 1568 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:50:57 PM 1486 Views
Yes, but it's one concept! Darth_Katie - 14/06/2011 06:58:45 PM 1547 Views
That's easy. No. Wibble - 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM 1597 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM 1397 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Wibble - 14/06/2011 10:26:02 PM 1580 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:29:04 PM 1577 Views
Oh... jh - 13/06/2011 07:24:02 PM 1509 Views
Re: Oh... Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:53:15 PM 1438 Views
only great expectations Foxhead - 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM 1436 Views
Re: only great expectations Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:54:29 PM 1566 Views
mmmm Foxhead - 14/06/2011 03:53:15 PM 1445 Views
Very un-dickensian answers Stephen - 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM 1459 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM 1625 Views
That was meant to be a pithy sarcastic comment. *NM* Stephen - 14/06/2011 06:17:45 PM 874 Views
Shocking. *NM* Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:26:09 PM 704 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 1493 Views
In which country? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:59:04 PM 1524 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey? Tom - 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM 1581 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM 1574 Views
Can you please find that word? Tom - 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM 1441 Views
Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM 1542 Views
None of those. It was a thoroughly odd word. Tom - 15/06/2011 02:25:31 PM 1348 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM 1457 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:03:39 PM 1467 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 14/06/2011 04:59:11 PM 1505 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 05:03:36 PM 1576 Views
They are Larry - 14/06/2011 07:23:38 PM 1542 Views
Re: They are Camilla - 14/06/2011 09:18:38 PM 1397 Views
Some were, but most were short fictions or short novels Larry - 14/06/2011 11:09:53 PM 1452 Views
I'm considering picking up Our Mutual Friend. Yay or nay? *NM* RandAllThor - 15/06/2011 12:43:52 AM 1453 Views
Yes. It's one of his more complex and rewarding novels. Larry - 15/06/2011 01:19:51 AM 1363 Views
It is good Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:50:56 AM 1521 Views
Yes nossy - 14/06/2011 12:23:19 AM 1527 Views
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Yes Ryan - 14/06/2011 05:49:06 AM 1531 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:40 PM 1409 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ClubCaved - 14/06/2011 05:45:06 PM 1521 Views
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Edwin Drood Ending ClubCaved - 15/06/2011 03:55:01 PM 1478 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:12:34 PM 1479 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:51:53 AM 1599 Views
A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM 1472 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:12:35 AM 1348 Views
Re: A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 04:05:08 PM 1631 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:11:43 PM 1485 Views
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Re: What the Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:10 PM 1488 Views
why bother/ They made them all into movies *NM* random thoughts - 15/06/2011 06:09:35 PM 709 Views
Have you seen any Dickens? *NM* Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:37 PM 671 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:19:47 PM 1346 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:17:01 PM 1479 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 22/06/2011 03:00:19 AM 1700 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:04:35 PM 1568 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:06:18 PM 1617 Views
All of them. *NM* ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:14:01 PM 632 Views
Are you sure? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:34:26 PM 1499 Views
Yes. ranagrande - 19/06/2011 09:44:37 PM 1561 Views
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