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... dictionary's first page right now , that “ aardvark ” springs to my mind . The dictionary had a pic- ture of it , a long - tailed , long - eared , burrowing African mammal , which lives off termites caught by sticking out its tongue as ...
... dictionary's first page right now , that “ aardvark ” springs to my mind . The dictionary had a pic- ture of it , a long - tailed , long - eared , burrowing African mammal , which lives off termites caught by sticking out its tongue as ...
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... dictionary in 1828 , and before long dictionary publishing was a big business in this country . The last century has seen the publication of one great dictionary : the twelve - volume Oxford English Dictionary , compiled in the course ...
... dictionary in 1828 , and before long dictionary publishing was a big business in this country . The last century has seen the publication of one great dictionary : the twelve - volume Oxford English Dictionary , compiled in the course ...
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... dictionaries to take up the banner of defenders of the language , but in recent years they have increas- ingly shied away from the role . A perennial argument with dictionary makers is whether they should be prescriptive ( that is ...
... dictionaries to take up the banner of defenders of the language , but in recent years they have increas- ingly shied away from the role . A perennial argument with dictionary makers is whether they should be prescriptive ( that is ...
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Simplicity WILLIAM ZINSSER | 13 |
Freewriting PETER ELBOW | 19 |
Revising Your Own Manuscript | 28 |
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