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Re:Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary surviv... by donquichotte on Monday February 26, 2018 @05:43AM (#16464415)
So it's from 1888? I'm anispeptic, phrasmotic, and even compunctuous to see if "contrafibularities" is already in there.
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Re:Inside the OED: can the world’s biggest dictionary surviv... by kragen on Monday February 26, 2018 @08:37AM (#16465123)
Only the first volume is from 1888. It took almost 40 years to finish the rest of the work, publishing it in fascicles for beta testing.
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