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A35856 Didascalocophus, or, The deaf and dumb mans tutor to which is added a discourse of the nature and number of double consonants, both which tracts being the first (for what the author knows) that have been published upon either of the subjects / by Geo. Dalgarno. Dalgarno, George, 1626?-1687. 1680 (1680) Wing D129; ESTC R11949 52,273 143

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