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Latest additions to the OED

On 12 June, the revised range quittal to ramvert was added to the Dictionary: seee John Simpson's commentary on the latest revision. We have also added new words in the range and from across the alphabet; Katherine Martin picks some out in her notes on the latest new words.

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