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Pages: 406
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Language: en
Pages: 516
Pages: 516
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988-05-17 - Publisher: Harper Collins
The Morrises, well-known lexicographers, published a dictionary of the same title in 1977, a revision of a three-volume work published between 1962 and 1971. Th
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Contains alphabetically arranged entries that explore the origin, evolution, and social history of over three thousand English language words.