Northanger Abbey - Book group discussion thread

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Peregrinator Sep 2019 8:44am, 5 Sep 2019 121 posts	0 Peregrinator I've never had the experience of been verbed before 😀
McGoohan Sep 2019 2:20pm, 6 Sep 2019 41,063 posts	0 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	0 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	0 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	0 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