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Far be it from me to suggest to Dickens that he take on a few extra words.

I'm sure he would have been extremely grateful for them. He was always working to deadlines, trying to fill each week's or month's instalment.

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Loud is measured in decibels. Pitch is measured in cycles per second.

When did they start using decibels to measure loudness? Before or after the 1830s, which, if my memory is correct, is when Dickens was writing The Pickwick Papers?

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