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English language - Foreign words and phrases

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    Hobson-Jobson : being a glossary of Anglo-Indian colloquial words and phrases, and of kindred terms: etymological, historical, geographical, and discursive / by Col. Henry Yule ... and the late Arthur Coke Burnell.

    Henry Yule | Date: 1886
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    Austral English : a dictionary of Australasian words, phrases, and usages, with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia / by Edward E. Morris.

    Edward Ellis Morris | Date: 1898
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    Glossographia Anglicana nova, or, a dictionary, interpreting such hard words of whatever language, as are at present used in the English tongue, with their etymologies, definitions, etc.

    | Date: 1707

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