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This hasn't been in AWADtalk before. I don't remember where I got it, and don't remember seeing it in tsuwm's wwftd, but when I checked it had appeared there recently. If I had seen it that recently, I would have posted it at that time. Dear tsuwm: I'm not stubborn, I'm pervicacious. pervicacious \pur-vih-KAY-shus\, adjective: Refusing to change one's ideas, behavior, etc.; stubborn; obstinate.
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hardly recent.. [shrugs] In reply to:
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 9:14:51 CDT To: [eight(8!) subscribers] Subject: today's wwftd is... pervicacious
the worthless word for the day is: pervicacious
(not to be confused with pertinacious)
it is obvious that parents have had great input into our language:
immutable intransigent implacable obdurate indomitable intractable incorrigible recalcitrant contumacious obstreporous fractious and just plain obstinate -tsuwm
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Oh, tsuwm?
Shouldn't that be obstreperous?
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where were you in '95, WW?
(but here's an amusing spelling: 1773 Goldsm. Stoops to Conq. iii, I'm sure you did not treat Miss Hardcastle+in this obstropalous manner. )
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Smells like a portmanteau word.
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Obstropalous - That's what a Greek barber hones his razor on.
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