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has collected and preserved correspondence between
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Language on
Vacation: An Olio of Orthographical Oddities
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401:Beyond Language: Adventures in Word and Thought
251:Beyond Language: Adventures in Word and Thought
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1159:. Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 57.
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896:. New York, NY, USA: Penguin.
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824:(December 1965). "Books".
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600:"Dmitri Alfred Borgmann".
574:"Dmitri Alfred Borgmann".
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101:Dmitri Alfred Borgmann
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