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The Grandiloquent Dictionary

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Genres: Reference, Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 423 — Language English & Old English languages Dictionaries of standard English
LCC: PE1680 .R57 — Language and Literature English language English Modern English
BISAC: REF REFERENCE General

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Published: 1972
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DDC/MDS: 423
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