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	Chapter Containing the whole Science of Government of Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
		Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving—HOW NOT TO DO IT.
		Through this delicate perception, through the tact with which it invariably seized it, and through the genius with which it always acted on it, the Circumlocution Office had risen to overtop all the public departments; and the public condition had risen to be—what it was.
		Because the Circumlocution Office was down upon any ill-advised public servant who was going to do it, or who appeared to be by any surprising accident in remote danger of doing it, with a minute, and a memorandum, and a letter of instructions that extinguished him.
	www.bibliomania.com /0/0/19/39/11967/1.html (606 words)

	Circumlocution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Circumlocution, like its Greek counterpart periphrasis, is a figure of speech where the meaning of a word or phrase is indirectly expressed through several or many words.
		In linguistics, circumlocution is a device by which a grammatical concept is expressed by a phrase or standard idiom, instead of being shown by inflection, derivation or the use of non-content words.
		Circumlocution also means replacing a word with another (or others), often in order to sound more polite, to avoid a rude term or to be ironic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Circumlocution (266 words)

	The Circumlocution Office
		The term circumlocution describes roundabout or indirect speech, or the use of many words where a few would do.
		The Circumlocution Office is a place of endless confusion.
		In this source Mr Clennam has come to the Circumlocution Office to discuss Mr Dorrit's situation in the debtor's prison with Mr Barnacle.
	www.bl.uk /learning/histcitizen/21cc/lang/control1/circumlocution1/circumlocution.html (106 words)

	Attitudes, Innuendo, and Regulators
		Circumlocution is based on Goffman’s work and is defined as “a variety of evasive tactics deployed by an interactant to protect himself or herself against face-fall” (Obeng, 1997, p.
		Circumlocution will be included because humor and indirectness are two typical evasive tactics used by interactants to save face.
		Still, Obeng’s distinction of circumlocution does underscore the breadth of innuendo, which is not only reflected in lexical or phrasal items, but may also be characteristic of a discourse-level strategy.
	gupress.gallaudet.edu /excerpts/AIRthree2.html (628 words)

	BOOK I: 10. Containing the whole Science of Government Page 1
		Through this delicate perception, through the tact with which it invariably seized it, and through the genius with which it always acted on it, the Circumlocution Office had risen to overtop all the public departments; and the public condition had risen to be--what it was.
		Because the Circumlocution Office was down upon any ill-advised public servant who was going to do it, or who appeared to be by any surprising accident in remote danger of doing it, with a minute, and a memorandum, and a letter of instructions that extinguished him.
		And although one of two things always happened; namely, either that the Circumlocution Office had nothing to say and said it, or that it had something to say of which the noble lord, or right honourable gentleman, blundered one half and forgot the other; the Circumlocution Office was always voted immaculate by an accommodating majority.
	www.web-books.com /Classics/Dickens/Little/Little10_1.htm (1015 words)

	Chapter Eight. Little Dorit: The Attack on Comedy, Part Two
		The Circumlocution Office is manned and guided by the Barnacles, parasites not so much on England as on life itself, The Barnacles, in fact, are not enemies of England so much as they are England, a cross-section which includes the snobbish and the open, the austere and the friendly, the mean and the kind.
		This group, the Merdles, the Barnacles, and the Circumlocution Office, are at the centre of the negative humour, and radiating out from this centre are the same falsity, snobbery, rigidity, and dangerous inhumanity, touching almost all the characters in the novel and completely infecting many of them.
		While this is, at least potentially, sad, it is actually dangerous, as is her whole notion of "forming the mind", that is to say, the lips, by repeating "Prunes and Prism", as if it were a religious incantation.
	www.victorianweb.org /victorian/authors/dickens/kincaid2/ch8c.html (6118 words)

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		Sarah Jourdain University of Louisville A near-native ability to circumlocute The ability to circumlocute is a crucial component in compensating for imperfect mastery of a second language and as such is considered a measure of pragmatic competence.
		It is presumed that the ability to circumlocute increases with increasing proficiency in the language, although research suggests that there is an inverse relationship between the amount of circumlocution used and the proficiency level of the speakers (Labarca & Khanji, 1986; Poulisse & Schils, 1989).
		Interestingly, little attention has been given to the speakers who are assumed to have the greatest ability to circumlocute, the near-native, or superior-level, speakers.
	www.msu.edu /~slrf97/Abstracts/Sarah_Jourdain (406 words)

	Definition of circumlocution - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
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	The Circumlocution Office
		'The Circumlocution Department, sir, 'Mr Barnacle replied, may have possibly recommended - possibly - I cannot say - that some public claim against the insolvent estated of a firm or copartnership to which this person may have belonged, should be enforced.
		So he went back to the Circumlocution Office, and once more sent up his card to Barnacle Junior by a messenger who took it very ill indeed that he should come back again, and who was eating mashed potatoes and gravy behind a partition by the hall fire
		He was admitted to the presence of Barnacle Junior, and found that young gentleman singeing his knees now, and gaping his weary way on to four o'clock.
	www.bl.uk /learning/images/21cc/lang/transcript1272.html (572 words)

	Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Circumlocution: Evasion in speech of a word which should not be pronounced; the pronounceable word itself.
		In Hebrew culture, the ineffable (unpronounceable) name of God was often replaced with the circumlocution Adonai.
		By the second or third century of the Christian era, documents were bound with thongs forming volumes, rather than being rolled in the form of scrolls.
	www.europa.com /~lynnlund/tetraglos.htm (1972 words)

	Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/circumlocution
		Dickens gave us the classic picture of official heartlessness: the government Circumlocution Office, burial ground of hope in "Little Dorrit."
		In a delightful circumlocution, the Fed chairman said that "investors are probably revisiting expectations of domestic earnings growth".
		Courtesies and circumlocutions are out of place, where the morals, health, lives of thousands are at stake.
	dictionary.reference.com /wordoftheday/archive/2005/08/01.html (88 words)

	Definition of circumlocution,rend,pellucid,parse,percussion,prattle,bode,biennial,eloquence,catalyst
		Definition of circumlocution, rend, pellucid, parse, percussion, prattle, bode, biennial, eloquence, catalyst
		The man's speech contained so much circumlocution that I was unsure of the point he was trying to make.
		The child made a long speech using circumlocution to avoid stating that it was she who had knocked over the lamp.
	www.english-test.net /gmat/vocabulary/words/009/gmat-definitions.php (1235 words)

	Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens: BOOK THE FIRST POVERTY CHAPTER 10 Containing the whole Science of Government
		So he went back to the Circumlocution Office, and once more sent up his card to Barnacle junior by a messenger who took it very ill indeed that he should come back again, and who was eating mashed potatoes and gravy behind a partition by the hall fire.
		How the Circumlocution Office, in course of time, took up the business as if it were a bran new thing of yesterday, which had never been heard of before; muddled the business, addled the business, tossed the business in a wet blanket.
		How the Circumlocution Office, in a Minute, number eight thousand seven hundred and forty, `saw no reason to reverse the decision at which my lords had arrived.` How the Circumlocution Office, being reminded that my lords had arrived at no decision, shelved the business.
	classicauthors.net /Dickens/dorrit/dorrit10.html (6465 words)

	Linguistics 577 - Lesson Plans: Vocabulary
		Students will practice circumlocution by avoiding words they already know, then move on to use it to describe things for which they do not know the words.
		Each student should have three cards, and his or her partner should not be able to see the words on each one.
		Require the students to talk to two native speakers of English, making sure to use circumlocution to describe what they wish to communicate, instead of avoiding certain subjects altogether.
	linguistics.byu.edu /classes/ling577mt/lpv3.html (548 words)

	Word For The Day, Thursday, August 4, 2005 - Circumlocution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Etymology: Circumlocution comes from Latin circumlocutio, circumlocution-, from circum, "around" + loquor, loqui, "to speak." Circumlocution office is a term of ridicule for a governmental office where business is delayed by passing through the hands of different officials.
		The Democrats' circumlocution on the issues facing our nation fails to distract the trained observer their disdain for representative government, the military, and the American way of life.
		It's summer, the country's traveling, and the great pleasure to be had from leaving home is meeting and falling in love with a place you've never been to.
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	circumlocution - OneLook Dictionary Search
		circumlocution : Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
		circumlocution : WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
		circumlocution : A Word A Day [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=circumlocution (197 words)

	Circumlocution by Paul Hein
		I did not watch the debates, and generally eschewed the whole process, but the snippets of political rhetoric I couldn’t avoid reinforced my understanding that the politician’s skill involves, among other things, circumlocution.
		At the end of this harangue, the questioner will have 1) given up, 2) forgotten his original question, or 3) become distracted by something else mentioned during the "answer." And the candidate will not have lost any supporters, such as might have happened if he said, "I support it," or "I reject it."
		Some questions are best dealt with, not by circumlocution, but no locution at all.
	www.lewrockwell.com /hein/hein83.html (697 words)

	Little Dorrit - Chapter 10 - Charles Dickens - Read Print
		gentleman, in whose department it was to defend the Circumlocution
		Circumlocution Office not only was blameless in this matter, but
		Circumlocution Sages appeared to be assembled in council, and out
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	Circumlocution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Circumlocution consists of making the simple complex, the obvious obscure, and, at times, the familiar, enjoyably strange.
		If I was to say "A chronic disposition to inquiry deprived the feline carnivorous quadruped of its vital quality?", would you know the common saying described?
		Here are a number of circumlocutions known as Periphrastics.
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	Botanical Electronic News - BEN #CCCXXV
		Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving -- how not to do it.
		Through this delicateperception, through the tact with which it invariably seized it,and through the genius with which it always acted on it, theCircumlocution Office had risen to overtop all the publicdepartments; and the public condition had risen to be -- what it was.
		And ugh one of two things always happened; namely, either that the Circumlocution Office had nothing to say and said it, or that it had something to say of which the noble lord, or right honourable gentleman, blundered one half and forgot the other; the Circumlocution Office was always voted immaculate by an accommodating majority.
	www.ou.edu /cas/botany-micro/ben/ben325.html (2166 words)

	Circumlocution - Definition of Circumlocution by Webster Dictionary
		Circumlocution - Definition of Circumlocution by Webster Dictionary
		The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrase.
		would save abundance of time lost by circumlocution.
	www.webster-dictionary.net /definition/circumlocution (83 words)

	Circumlocution - Quick Stop Entertainment
		But the one thing to expect is more circumlocution.
		Peace can be fought for and I have no idea what makes you think otherwise, other than your bleeding-heart liberal peacenik agenda.
		It is the one thing that has been consistent throughout this presidency and this war, from everything and everyone involved.
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	Little Dorrit (10)
		Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving—HOW NOT TO DO IT.
		Through this delicate perception, through the tact with which it invariably seized it, and through the genius with which it always acted on it, the Circumlocution Office had risen to overtop all the public departments; and the public condition had risen to be—what it was.
		Because the Circumlocution Office was down upon any ill–advised public servant who was going to do it, or who appeared to be by any surprising accident in remote danger of doing it, with a minute, and a memorandum, and a letter of instructions that extinguished him.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /d/dickens/charles/d54ld/chap10.html (6412 words)

	Circumlocution-From the View - SchwabLearning.org
		I just did a quick check of past Schwab postings, and there have been several previous discussions that you might want to read...
		Do you see the highlighted box on the right side of the page where it says "Search Parent to Parent Message Board for (type in keywords)" then put in circumlocution...
		I was putting circumlocution in search out site and came up with nothing, I didn't think to try just the message board.
	www.schwablearning.org /message_boards/view_messages.asp?thread=17393 (320 words)

	Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 11
		Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving - HOW NOT TO DO IT.
		Through this delicate perception, through the tact with which it invariably seized it, and through the genius with which it always acted on it, the Circumlocution Office had risen to overtop all the public departments; and the public condition had risen to be - what it was.
		'The Circumlocution Department, sir,' Mr Barnacle replied, 'may have possibly recommended - possibly - I cannot say - that some public claim against the insolvent estate of a firm or copartnership to which this person may have belonged, should be enforced.
	www.classicbookshelf.com /library/charles_dickens/little_dorrit/11 (6474 words)

	circumlocution - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		Roundabout speech or writing: “The driveway was not unlike that military training device known as an obstacle course” is a circumlocution for “The driveway resembled an obstacle course.” Circumlocution comes from Latin words meaning “speaking around.”
		circumlocution was Word of the Day on October 27, 1999.
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	dictionary.reference.com /browse/circumlocution (180 words)

	circumlocution
		As the name implies, "talking around" something, usually by supplying a descriptive phrase in place of a name (=periphrasis).
		Circumlocutions are rhetorically useful as euphemisms, as a method of amplification, or to hint at something without stating it.
		Laertes, urging Ophelia to keep clear of Hamlet, refers to her virginity metaphorically through a circumlocation:
	humanities.byu.edu /rhetoric/Figures/C/circumlocution.htm (82 words)

	Lesson Plans: Vocabulary
		Students will be able to describe unfamiliar objects and situations without knowing exact vocabulary. Instead, they will use their existing vocabulary and circumlocution techniques.
		Ask students what phrases were used to introduce circumlocution. Then ask them if they can think of other phrases that they might use to describe objects or situations for which they did not have a name. Model the use of each of these phrases.
		Require the students to talk to two native speakers of English, making sure to use circumlocution to describe what they wish to communicate, instead of avoiding certain subjects altogether. Ask them to bring in a record of those two conversations, describing what the subject was and what they communicated using circumlocution.
	linguistics.byu.edu /resources/lp/lpv3.html (380 words)

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		-Henry David Thoreau cir.cum.lo.cu.tion n [L. circumlocution-, circumlocutio, fr.
		"Known for her forthright speech and avoidance of diplomatic circumlocution, Albright was warmly praised by members of both parties." This week's theme: "It was a dark and stormy night..." -------- Date: Sun Apr 27 00:02:48 EDT 1997 Subject: A.Word.A.Day--penster X-Bonus: Doust thou love life?
		Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
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