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Title: The Foolish Dictionary
Author: Gideon Wurdz
Illustrator: Wallace Goldsmith
Release Date: April 1, 2007 [EBook #1989]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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[Illustration: GIDEON WURDZ.]
The
FOOLISH
DICTIONARY
An exhausting work of reference
to un-certain English words, their
origin, meaning, legitimate
and illegitimate use,
confused by
A FEW PICTURES
BY WALLACE GOLDSMITH
_Executed by_
GIDEON WURDZ
_Master of Pholly, Doctor of Loquacious
Lunacy, Fellow of the Royal
Gibe Society, etc., etc._
COVER DESIGNED BY E.B. BIRD
JOHN. W. LUCE AND COMPANY
BOSTON MDCCCCIV
_Copyright, 1904, by_ THE
ROBINSON, LUCE COMPANY
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