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"ref": "1891, Punch, Vol. 101, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2004",
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"ref": "1901, PT Ross, A Yeoman's Letters, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009",
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"ref": "1915, Captain WHL Watson, Adventures of a Despatch Rider, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2005",
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"ref": "1930, Roy Milton Iliff, In the Red, reprint edition, Kessinger, published 2005, page 99",
"text": "Grandpa grunted—and belched again. \"That old windbag! And his langwidge!\"",
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"ref": "2003, William Wymark Jacobs, Light Freights, Wildside Press LLC, page 25",
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"ref": "2005, James Edwin Miller, quoting Pound, 1922, T.S. Eliot: The Making of an American Poet, Penn State Press, page 389",
"text": "That is 19 pages, and let us say the longest poem in the English langwidge.",
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"ref": "2009 Jun/Jul, Gary Jennings, “Sooner or Later or Never Never”, in Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 116, number 6/7, page 171",
"text": "But Pitjantjatjara, although it has four declensions and four conjugations, is alleged to be the simplest of all the bloody Australoid langwidges.",
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