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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Queen's English: Stray Notes on Speaking and Spelling |
| Author | Henry Alford |
| Publisher | A. Strahan, 1864 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Sep 1, 2010 |
| Length | 257 pages |
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