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In the beginning was the word, Nelson Wattie

The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary ed Tony Deverson and Graeme Kennedy Oxford University Press, $130, ISBN 0195584511 Lexicographers are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the publication, on 15 April 1755, of Samuel Johnson’s dictionary, the book that made their profession

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Signing on, Rachel Locker McKee

A Dictionary of New Zealand Sign Language Graeme Kennedy (ed) Auckland University Press with Bridget Williams Books $99.95 ISBN 1 86940164 6 A national taonga has been quietly hidden from most people’s view until the recent arrival on booksellers’ shelves

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