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#95721 02/15/03 06:24 PM
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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.



#95722 02/15/03 09:14 PM
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hardly recent.. [shrugs]

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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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