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Several three-syllable English words, like "caramel," "jewelry" and "Realtor," are pronounced as having just two syllables, ...

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Over  €1.1 million in funding has been announced for the Historical Dictionary of Irish or Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge ...

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To mark March Madness, Dictionary.com is doing a bracket of regional slang words, pitting phrases from the West, South, Midwest and Northeast against each other. "March is bracket season, and ...

THE appearance of this volume completes the production of the first dictionary of organic compounds in the English language. The high standard of the first two volumes (NATURE, 134, 751 ...

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