THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
N'i:w OXFOKl) DIt'TIONAKy. The new Oxford Dictionary is now complete after seventy years of laltour and a cost to Oxford University Press of £300.000. The dictionary will he published and presented to King George April 19. It is the most exhaustive dictionary in the Hnglish language ever undertaken, consisting of 12 volumes containing 418.825 words 590.090 definitions. 1,827.306 quotations and 46.464 columns of print which if placed edgewise, would stretch nine mile. The work was started in 1595 under the editorship <>f Hnrtelv Coleridge, ft was once described by Arnold Hen nett as “the most sensational serial ever written.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1928, Page 2
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103THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 19 April 1928, Page 2
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