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"ref": "1974, Eric Josephson, Eleanor Elizabeth Carroll, Columbia University. School of Public Health and Administrative Medicine, Drug use: epidemiological and sociological approaches (page 110)",
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"ref": "2009, John Wise, chapter 12, in Sweet Dreams, page 308",
"text": "Albert was flabbergasted. Yer really buyin′ a chippy?” Tom smiled whilst nodding his head. “That′s me plan.”",
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}
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"(New Zealand) A potato chip."
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"ref": "1908, Alice Lounsberry, chapter I, in The Garden Book for Young People, page 139",
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"ref": "1911, Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study, 24th edition, published 1939, page 88",
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"ref": "1974, Eric Josephson, Eleanor Elizabeth Carroll, Columbia University. School of Public Health and Administrative Medicine, Drug use: epidemiological and sociological approaches (page 110)",
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