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|doctor=Sixth Doctor  
|doctor=Sixth Doctor  
|companions= [[Peri Brown|Peri]]  
|companions= [[Peri Brown|Peri]]  
|enemy= [[Warren (...ish)|Warren]] and the [[Ish]] of the [[Omniverbum]]
|enemy= [[Warren (...ish)|Warren]], the [[Ish]] of the [[Omniverbum]]
|setting= An unnamed university in the [[Articulate Worlds]]
|setting= An unnamed university in the [[Articulate Worlds]]
|writer= [[Phil Pascoe]]  
|writer= [[Phil Pascoe]]  

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...ish was the thirty-fifth monthly Doctor Who audio story produced by Big Finish Productions. It featured Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor and Nicola Bryant as Peri Brown. This was the second audio story to feature this line up of companion and Doctor. To date, it is Phil Pascoe's only contribution to audio-based Doctor Who.

Publisher's summary

A conference of lexicographers: bromides in tweed. But the leading expert in the field is found dead by her own hand — and by her hologlyphic assistant. Is he responsible? Does the death fit any conventional definitions? Can the Sixth Doctor realise who wrote the suicide note and why, exactly, it was riddled with spelling errors?

Peri should help out, but there's a guy. Someone who loves language even more than the Doctor. Maybe, she realises, enough to kill for. Or perhaps just enough to ask her out to dinner. Unless, of course, he's already spoken for...

Is it madness? Seeking transcendence in the complete lexicon? Having the right words on the tip of your tongue but never quite knowing when to use them?

If so, how?

Plot

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Illustration preview by Martin Geraghty in DWM 321

Cast

References

Books

Colleges and universities

  • The conference held at a university is a collection of Linguistics, Lexicologists, and Logomaniacs, with multiworld attendees including ABCDarians and Xenophilologists.

Languages

  • The Omniverbum is the longest word in the universe known to exist.
  • The Ish is an affix to this word, and is a sentient meme, perhaps like the Bad Wolf meme or the Bad Wolf itself.
  • The Doctor says he can communicate via the language of Delphon; it's a silent language expressed using one's eyebrows.

Notes

  • The Doctor makes an aborted reference to an encyclopaedia that was too heavy to lift that "ran from DAL to...". This is a nod to Terry Nation's apocryphal claim that the name of the Daleks was inspired by an encyclopaedia volume running from DAL to LEK.
  • This audio drama was recorded on 6 and 8 March 2002 at The Moat Studios.

Continuity

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