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The Oxford Dictionary of English is at the forefront of language research, focusing on English as it is used today, informed by the most up-to-date evidence from the largest language research programme in the world, including the 800-million-word Oxford English Corpus. This revised edition includes Continue
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lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010
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Smothered in Onions
“Derivations,” they used to be called in school. “Pryce-Jones, give me a word that derives from the Hungarian.” Silence. “I know, sir, ‘coach’.” “Why?” Silence. “I know, sir, isn’t it from a town called Kocs?” “Good boy. And now tell me where ‘marmal ... (read full critics)
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- Hardcover 2110 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0198610572
- ISBN-13: 9780198610571
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Pub date: Aug 11, 2005
- Dimensions: 1742 mm x 1355 mm Just how big is that?
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