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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.
*MySmiley*
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Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 13/06/2011 04:46:11 PM 1641 Views
What the dickens?! Nate - 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM 1218 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM 1108 Views
Re: Pay Nate - 14/06/2011 06:13:33 PM 1162 Views
P.S. Shakespeare was probably a time traveller. *NM* Nate - 14/06/2011 06:16:30 PM 508 Views
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I may have a lead Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:21:33 PM 1170 Views
But, of course. Palatine - 13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM 1168 Views
Re: But, of course. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:42:34 PM 1090 Views
Re: But, of course. Palatine - 14/06/2011 05:42:36 PM 1110 Views
Yes. Rebekah - 13/06/2011 05:19:05 PM 1150 Views
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Re: Yes. Rebekah - 14/06/2011 09:01:07 PM 1203 Views
I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Legolas - 13/06/2011 05:22:33 PM 1242 Views
Re: I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:46:41 PM 1127 Views
i *hate* dickens. temeraire - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM 1231 Views
Re: i *hate* dickens. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:48:28 PM 1000 Views
sorry i didn't reply - forgot about this. temeraire - 25/06/2011 02:40:51 PM 1276 Views
Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM* Tim - 13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM 554 Views
Hard Times is one of my favorite Dickens novels Larry - 13/06/2011 11:43:18 PM 1101 Views
Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies? Tom - 14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM 1075 Views
I am not a fan of Hard Times, either. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:49:02 PM 1109 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Darth_Katie - 13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM 1205 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:50:57 PM 1140 Views
Yes, but it's one concept! Darth_Katie - 14/06/2011 06:58:45 PM 1146 Views
That's easy. No. Wibble - 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM 1168 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM 1036 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Wibble - 14/06/2011 10:26:02 PM 1167 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:29:04 PM 1259 Views
Oh... jh - 13/06/2011 07:24:02 PM 1134 Views
Re: Oh... Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:53:15 PM 1115 Views
only great expectations Foxhead - 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM 1087 Views
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mmmm Foxhead - 14/06/2011 03:53:15 PM 1097 Views
Very un-dickensian answers Stephen - 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM 1116 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM 1251 Views
That was meant to be a pithy sarcastic comment. *NM* Stephen - 14/06/2011 06:17:45 PM 696 Views
Shocking. *NM* Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:26:09 PM 525 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 1130 Views
In which country? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:59:04 PM 1143 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey? Tom - 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM 1200 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM 1225 Views
Can you please find that word? Tom - 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM 1090 Views
Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM 1170 Views
None of those. It was a thoroughly odd word. Tom - 15/06/2011 02:25:31 PM 1019 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM 1093 Views
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Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 14/06/2011 04:59:11 PM 1082 Views
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They are Larry - 14/06/2011 07:23:38 PM 1161 Views
Re: They are Camilla - 14/06/2011 09:18:38 PM 1073 Views
Some were, but most were short fictions or short novels Larry - 14/06/2011 11:09:53 PM 1085 Views
I'm considering picking up Our Mutual Friend. Yay or nay? *NM* RandAllThor - 15/06/2011 12:43:52 AM 1108 Views
Yes. It's one of his more complex and rewarding novels. Larry - 15/06/2011 01:19:51 AM 1014 Views
It is good Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:50:56 AM 1175 Views
Yes nossy - 14/06/2011 12:23:19 AM 1177 Views
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ClubCaved - 14/06/2011 05:45:06 PM 1169 Views
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Edwin Drood Ending ClubCaved - 15/06/2011 03:55:01 PM 1090 Views
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A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM 1106 Views
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Re: A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 04:05:08 PM 1234 Views
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Re: What the Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:10 PM 1133 Views
why bother/ They made them all into movies *NM* random thoughts - 15/06/2011 06:09:35 PM 519 Views
Have you seen any Dickens? *NM* Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:37 PM 495 Views
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All of them. *NM* ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:14:01 PM 476 Views
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Yes. ranagrande - 19/06/2011 09:44:37 PM 1237 Views
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