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Archie Hobson also edited The Oxford Essential Geographical Dictionary (published in 1999 by Berkley Books) and the geographical portion of The Oxford Dictionary of People and Places as well as The Cambridge Gazetteer of the United States and Canada.

Continuing his abstracts of the Oxford English Dictionary, most of them topical, Hobson here drops out the words that native speakers almost never need to look up the meaning or spelling of. To provide a succinct reference for general readers, he also drops all information on etymology and history.

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