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17: 125:: should the dictionary be an authoritarian guide to 'correct' English or should it be so antiseptically free of comment that it may defeat the user by providing him with no guidance at all?" In 1982 Random House published The Random House ProofReader, a computer 367: 896: 694: 763: 651: 889: 830: 440: 736: 575: 269: 534: 882: 868: 903: 859: 701: 433: 541: 875: 855: 39:. Edited by Editor-in-chief Jess Stein, it contained 315,000 entries in 2256 pages, as well as 2400 illustrations. The 797: 770: 566: 729: 665: 658: 323: 426: 925: 708: 715: 598: 518: 67: 414:
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with large numbers of entries in all fields, primarily proper names, and published it in 1966 as
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Dictionaries and the Authoritarian Tradition: A Study in English Usage and Lexicography
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into the dictionary's title after an appeals court overturned an injunction awarded to
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practice of adding dates for the entry of words into the language. Unlike the
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Versions of the dictionary have been published under other names, including
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steers "a linguistically sound middle course" between the "lexicographer's
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The Random House Dictionary of the English Language: The Unabridged Edition
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The Random House Dictionary of the English Language: The Unabridged Edition
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might offer 1670–80. This second edition was described as permissive by
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Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language
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In his preface to the 1966 edition, Stein wrote (p. vi) that the
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In the late 1950s, it was decided to publish an expansion of the
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An expanded second edition of the printed dictionary, edited by
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Guide to reference materials for school library media centers
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version in 1994 also included 120,000 spoken pronunciations.
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s online dictionary bases its proprietary content on the
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market after World War II. They acquired rights to the
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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language
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Barbara Ripp Safford and Margaret Irby Nichols, eds.
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indicated a range of dates. For example, where the
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Dictionary of American English
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American College Dictionary
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Dictionary.com
WordGenius
$ 79 Random House Dictionary: Look It Up Under Bargain
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Kurt Vonnegut
Dictionaries and the Authoritarian Tradition: A Study in English Usage and Lexicography
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9783111881348
"The Spelling Bee Is Over"
"BRAVE NEW WORDS A DICTIONARY FOR TODAY"
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