A MONUMENTAL WORK
OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY.
TWO MILLION QUOTATIONS,
PUBLICATION OF LAST VOLUME
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received 9.45 a..in. .to-day. LONDON, Dec. 2S.
The Oxford University Press hopes to publish in March the final volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, the world’s largest. It was inaugurated in 1858, and *tho first volume was published in ISB4. The complete work costs £42. It contains 15,000 pages, two million quotations, and defines 400,000 words.—“ Sydney Sun” cable.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 December 1927, Page 5
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76A MONUMENTAL WORK Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 30 December 1927, Page 5
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