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Vol. 8:1 (1991) ► pp.87–92

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Geoffrey Hughes. Words in Time: A social history of the English vocabulary. Geoffrey Hughes. [The Language Library, [no number. Oxford & New York: Basil Blackwell, 1988. ix, 270 pp.

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Published online: 1 January 1991
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