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Christian Kay, Jane Roberts, Michael Samuels and Irené Wotherspoon (eds.), Historical thesaurus of the Oxford English dictionary with additional material from A thesaurus of Old English, vol. I: Thesaurus, vol. II Index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xxxv+1783, ix + 2109. £275.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 February 2011

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English Language & Linguistics , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , March 2011 , pp. 193 - 197
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