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Issue Details: First known date: 1923... 1923 An Old Dictionary
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The writer compares an eighteenth-century edition of the Webster Dictionary with the Oxford Concise Dictionary and enjoys the former's style, providing examples of amusing definitions and proverbs.

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    y separately published work icon Platypus July 1923 Z1532981 1923 periodical issue 1923 pg. 17-19
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