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Sundarnaz Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

W__N

"She got only as far as W__N before her baby arrived." I read this sentence in a short novel "Oliver Twist". I want to know what this W and N stands for? Is it an idiom? or two out of the four directions or indicating to cities of England?
Help please. thanks.
  

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Can you give us the preceding sentence? I can't find the quote. Has someone suggested to her some sort of exercise to help with the delivery?

— Avangi

  • Can you give us the preceding sentence?
  • I can't find the quote.
  • Has someone suggested to her some sort of exercise to help with the delivery?
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Can you give us the preceding sentence? I can't find the quote.
Has someone suggested to her some sort of exercise to help with the delivery?
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I just re-read this Dicken's classic, and could not find this passage in the text. What chapter is it in?

I would guess that it's the first and last letters in the name of a town or village.
The exact name is concealed by the author on purpose.
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AlpheccaStarsI just re-read this Dicken's classic, and could not find this passage in the text.
Wow! Evelyn Wood? I'm impressed!
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sundarnazcities of England
If so, it could be WigaN, WarringtoN, or WolverhamptoN, to name just three.

CJ
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AvangiWow! Evelyn Wood? I'm impressed! - A.
No Evelyn Wood. Emotion: embarrassed I should have written "ju
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I think the key here is the phrase "short novel." This is apparently a shortened version of the novel, possibly in comic book form, and so the text is completely different from the novel, which is why the quote can't be found in the original text. As for what "W_N" is, this is apparently a town, like, for example, "Woodville North," which has been abbreviated in the 19th century manuscript style
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As an interesting aside to this, while searching for the quote, I discovered that Dickens apparently wrote a short story called Oliver Twist, which the novel is an expanded version of.
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AlpheccaStars"A Christmas Carol" was my first read (on Christmas afternoon!), and "Oliver Twist" my second.
Sounds like fun. Alas, I'm a slow reader.
I like the old stuff, but some of our mods seem to try to discourage members from reading anything but very modern English.
A local radio announcer read the original Jeckell/Hyde with a Scottish accent fo
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Avangisome of our mods seem to try to discourage members from reading anything but very modern English.
With good reason and with the sting of personal experience in mind.

Imagine reading an 18th century French novel, finding an expression that amuses you, memorizing it, and then on your trip to Paris, throwing it into a conversation! I assure you, t
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Alphecca Stars thank for your reply,
Oliver twist, Charles Dickens, adapted by Geraldine McCaughrean, hope you have got what I wanted to say. secondly the sentence is in chapter 16 "trials and errors". And may be W N represents a town as the baby was born in a workhouse in a town.
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