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My father’s family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
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Dickens, C. (1965). Chapter 1. In: McMaster, R.D. (eds) Great Expectations. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81691-0_1
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