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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 1875 Views
What the dickens?! Nate - 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM 1460 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM 1359 Views
Re: Pay Nate - 14/06/2011 06:13:33 PM 1408 Views
P.S. Shakespeare was probably a time traveller. *NM* Nate - 14/06/2011 06:16:30 PM 616 Views
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I may have a lead Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:21:33 PM 1388 Views
But, of course. Palatine - 13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM 1397 Views
Re: But, of course. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:42:34 PM 1341 Views
Re: But, of course. Palatine - 14/06/2011 05:42:36 PM 1362 Views
Yes. Rebekah - 13/06/2011 05:19:05 PM 1388 Views
Re: Yes. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:45:04 PM 1499 Views
Re: Yes. Rebekah - 14/06/2011 09:01:07 PM 1454 Views
I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Legolas - 13/06/2011 05:22:33 PM 1506 Views
Re: I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:46:41 PM 1354 Views
i *hate* dickens. temeraire - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM 1478 Views
Re: i *hate* dickens. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:48:28 PM 1229 Views
sorry i didn't reply - forgot about this. temeraire - 25/06/2011 02:40:51 PM 1500 Views
Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM* Tim - 13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM 681 Views
Hard Times is one of my favorite Dickens novels Larry - 13/06/2011 11:43:18 PM 1329 Views
Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies? Tom - 14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM 1325 Views
I am not a fan of Hard Times, either. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:49:02 PM 1340 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Darth_Katie - 13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM 1467 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:50:57 PM 1366 Views
Yes, but it's one concept! Darth_Katie - 14/06/2011 06:58:45 PM 1426 Views
That's easy. No. Wibble - 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM 1483 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM 1280 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Wibble - 14/06/2011 10:26:02 PM 1456 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:29:04 PM 1477 Views
Oh... jh - 13/06/2011 07:24:02 PM 1381 Views
Re: Oh... Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:53:15 PM 1335 Views
only great expectations Foxhead - 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM 1329 Views
Re: only great expectations Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:54:29 PM 1441 Views
mmmm Foxhead - 14/06/2011 03:53:15 PM 1321 Views
Very un-dickensian answers Stephen - 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM 1357 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM 1496 Views
That was meant to be a pithy sarcastic comment. *NM* Stephen - 14/06/2011 06:17:45 PM 812 Views
Shocking. *NM* Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:26:09 PM 640 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 1374 Views
In which country? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:59:04 PM 1386 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey? Tom - 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM 1455 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM 1450 Views
Can you please find that word? Tom - 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM 1334 Views
Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM 1424 Views
None of those. It was a thoroughly odd word. Tom - 15/06/2011 02:25:31 PM 1246 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM 1358 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:03:39 PM 1363 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 14/06/2011 04:59:11 PM 1332 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 05:03:36 PM 1447 Views
They are Larry - 14/06/2011 07:23:38 PM 1417 Views
Re: They are Camilla - 14/06/2011 09:18:38 PM 1290 Views
Some were, but most were short fictions or short novels Larry - 14/06/2011 11:09:53 PM 1327 Views
I'm considering picking up Our Mutual Friend. Yay or nay? *NM* RandAllThor - 15/06/2011 12:43:52 AM 1344 Views
Yes. It's one of his more complex and rewarding novels. Larry - 15/06/2011 01:19:51 AM 1236 Views
It is good Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:50:56 AM 1410 Views
Yes nossy - 14/06/2011 12:23:19 AM 1419 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ClubCaved - 14/06/2011 05:45:06 PM 1412 Views
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Edwin Drood Ending ClubCaved - 15/06/2011 03:55:01 PM 1323 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:51:53 AM 1473 Views
A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM 1356 Views
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Re: A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 04:05:08 PM 1509 Views
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Re: What the Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:10 PM 1373 Views
why bother/ They made them all into movies *NM* random thoughts - 15/06/2011 06:09:35 PM 638 Views
Have you seen any Dickens? *NM* Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:37 PM 614 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:19:47 PM 1236 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:17:01 PM 1350 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:04:35 PM 1461 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:06:18 PM 1504 Views
All of them. *NM* ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:14:01 PM 576 Views
Are you sure? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:34:26 PM 1375 Views
Yes. ranagrande - 19/06/2011 09:44:37 PM 1459 Views
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