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Chamber's English dictionary, pronouncing, explanatory, and etymological : with vocabularies or Scottish words and phrases, Americanisms, &c / ed. by James Donald.

Chamber's English dictionary, pronouncing, explanatory, and etymological : with vocabularies or Scottish words and phrases, Americanisms, &c / ed. by James Donald.

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Dictionary of Americanisms : a glossary of words and phrases usually regarded as peculiar to the United States / by John Russell Bartlett.

John Russell Bartlett

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