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Template:R:Quinion Ballyhoo

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Michael Quinion (2004) “R:Quinion Ballyhoo”, in Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books in association with Penguin Books, →ISBN.


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This template may be used in "References" and "Further reading" sections, and on talk pages, to cite Michael Quinion's Ballyhoo, Buckaroo, and Spuds: Ingenious Tales of Words and Their Origins (2004).

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