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July 29, 2013

What a bore

Did Dickens invent the word boredom? It seems he did, in Bleak House. Strange for a word like that to come from a man who was probably never bored a minute in his life.

Thanks to David Perdue of Charles Dickens Page for the link.

Posted at 11:25 PM in Bleak House, Dickens references |

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