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Oxford English Dictionary
What still remains the most influential and collaborative project for the history at the English Language?
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True
Does war change Language?
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Women
Who were the earliest contributors to the New English Dictionary?
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Aeschylus
Who said that the first casualty of war is truth?
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Scriptorium
What is Murray's word factory and the center of the dictionaries operations?
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Terry Jones
Who said grammar is the first causality of war?
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Pioneers
Who stands at the crossroads of the intellectual and the empirical?
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Gripsack
What only word came out of the Civil War?
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Murray
Who thought if the New English Dictionary becomes a history of language, it also writes a history of reading?
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The French soldier who invented it in 1849
Who was the Minie ball named after?
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