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Professor Branestawm's Dictionary

by Norman Hunter

Presented as the work of an eccentric inventor from Great Pagwell, this whimsical dictionary offers alternative, humorous definitions for English words based on how they sound rather than their literal meanings.

Accession 33205 ISBN 140307128 Publisher Penguin
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