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"ref": "1839, “Commercial Travellers”, in The Merchants’ Magazine, and Commercial Review, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Freeman Hunt, […], pages 30–31:",
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"english": "only attested in the plural (anecdotae), probably non-standard",
"word": "anecdota"
},
{
"tags": [
"Grecian"
],
"word": "anecdoton"
},
{
"tags": [
"Latinate",
"rare"
],
"word": "anecdotum"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"anecdote"
],
"word": "anecdote"
}
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