Burgess Unabridged: A Classic Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed by Gelett Burgess
Burgess Unabridged: A Classic Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed
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Gelett Burgess
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Burgess Unabridged: A Classic Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed

Gelett Burgess

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Burgess Unabridged is the splendidly entertaining dictionary of linguistic inventions that Burgess originally published in 1914. Some of his coinages have since become playful parts of our language ("blurb," for one) while others were never picked...

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