MURRAY'S DICTIONARY.
END NOW IN SIGHT. MONUMENTAL PUBLICATION. gun. LONDON, Dec. 28. The authorities of the Oxford University Press hope to publish in March the final volume of the Oxford English Dictionary. The work was inaugurated in 1858, and the first volume was published in 1884. The complete work costs £42. It contains 15,000 pages, 2,000,000 quotations, and defines 400,000 words.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19833, 31 December 1927, Page 9
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61MURRAY'S DICTIONARY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19833, 31 December 1927, Page 9
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