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A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
English dictionary
Also known as: “NED”
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, (NED), the title of the original edition (1884–1928) of The Oxford English Dictionary (q.v.), which was the revised and corrected edition published in 1933.
(Read H.L. Mencken’s 1926 Britannica essay on American English.)
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