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Old 05-10-2019, 04:37 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Thank you for the correction, but I'm still extremely doubtful that this is a complete unabridged version of the OED. My university library has the OED - it's 20 volumes occupying something like 3m of shelf space. There's no way it could be printed in two volumes, no matter how small the print!
The previous post says it is printed at 9 original pages per page.
20/9 ~= 2, so it doesn't seem unbelievable.
(Unreadable, possibly.)
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