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WOrcester's Universal and Critical Die
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Dictionaries united Constant reference is made TO
AUTHORITIES with respect to words newly intro
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DEFINITIONS are clear and exact, and those per-
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of the vowel sounds than we have elsewhere met
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best English authorities in relation TO words differ
entity pronounced by different orthoepists, gives to
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reduce to the same rules words of similar forma-
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iiections OF words to a much greater extent than
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