Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-04
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the last 490 years down to the hobble
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| the English language that are not pc
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| technical terms. The spelling and
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+ AS a kind of preface To the diction-
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