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Northanger Abbey - Book group discussion thread

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Peregrinator Sep 2019 8:44am, 5 Sep 2019 121 posts	Quote Pin Peregrinator I've never had the experience of been verbed before 😀
McGoohan Sep 2019 2:20pm, 6 Sep 2019 41,063 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan "Really? How intriguing," he said peregrinatorially. And now you've been adverbed! And 'adverb' has been verbed
Peregrinator Sep 2019 2:40pm, 6 Sep 2019 130 posts	Quote Pin Peregrinator Realises the limitations of my IRL name. Some IRL names would work.... Although probably not worth adopting the name Roger just for this benefit.
Columba Sep 2019 9:43pm, 8 Sep 2019 18,428 posts	Quote Pin Columba There's a description somewhere of someone's handwriting "resembling the peregrinations of a drunken spider".
Peregrinator Sep 2019 11:21pm, 8 Sep 2019 134 posts	Quote Pin Peregrinator Columba - nice to have you back! Yes - one who travels with a vague intent seemed apt somehow. What occurred to me after McG's post was that some names can be both proper nouns and verbs. But I could only think of a few real life ones: Frank, Dawn, Mark, Nick.... Gogol was so nearly centuries ahead of his time