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    Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. Hohler, Emerich Thomas, 1781-1846. [from old catalog] 1792

  • "ostentati-ous" (at ostensible), etc. The worst and most embarrassing -- if these sorts of things can still embarrass publishers -- is "spel-ling," which occurs at Americanism and again at your or you're?, from which it is picked up for reproduction on page xi of the front matter.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4 1989

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