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The third edition of this dictionary reflects changes in the language in the last ten years with an A-Z section of more than sixteen thousand new words
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A remarkable bargain and a pleasure to use for research or browsing, notable for its aesthetic attractiveness (a particularly clear and handsome typeface, spacious pages, and some 4,000 pieces of margin art b&w photographs, line drawings, and maps); its ease of use (thumb-indexing, large and dark running heads, no bemystifying abbreviations or symbols to decipher); its abundance of aids to usage; and finally its clear and precise word meanings (some 350,000 entries, about 16,000 of them new), along with thousands of etymologies, 400 word history paragraphs, 900 cross-referenced synonym paragraphs, and more than 100 Regional American English Notes. Goes to the head of the class. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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