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Ottava |
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Fun stuff. I wonder if the Wiki people can claim this is evil Western colonialism at work.
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Are you bloody blind? Have you ever seen a copy of a dictionary? The Third New International is in three volumes measuring 13 by 9.5 inches. It has 2662 pages of dictionary, not counting the introduction or appendices. The second sentence in the preface starts "This latest unabridged Merriam-Webster", and towards the end it again says "This new Merriam-Webster unabridged".
And here's what Merriam-Webster themselves say: http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/book.pl?w3.htm QUOTE Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged The largest, most comprehensive American dictionary available! * Over 476,000 entries * Special updated Addenda Section of new words and meanings * 3,000 illustrations and 140,000 etymologies describing word origins http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/book.pl?c11.htm&1 QUOTE Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition A new edition of America's best-selling dictionary! Setting the standard with: * Fully revised print edition featuring more than 225,000 definitions * More than 10,000 new words and meanings Size: 1,664 pages; 7 1/4" X 9 7/8" So they themselves think the Collegiate Dictionary has fewer than half as many words as the Third New International. But of course, how can Merriam-Webster know as much about their dictionaries as you do? Yes, you ruddy have demonstrated how much you know about English! |
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Are you bloody blind? Have you ever seen a copy of a dictionary? The Third New International is in three volumes measuring 13 by 9.5 inches. No. The Third is in one volume with updates that came out in later volumes. You don't even have the basics correct. Pathetic. QUOTE So they themselves think the Collegiate Dictionary has fewer than half as many words as the Third New International. But of course, how can Merriam-Webster know as much about their dictionaries as you do? I was referring to their online dictionary. The Collegiate includes terms the International would never - did you not read the quote? It was a big quote, so I assume that your illiteracy kicked in by word 3. This post has been edited by Ottava: |
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No. The Third is in one volume with updates that came out in later volumes. I've got a copy in front of me, the Britannica edition, in three volumes. You don't even have the basics correct. Pathetic. QUOTE I was referring to their online dictionary. The Third New International has over twice as many words as the Collegiate. Do you seriously think the online dictionary has over 250,000 words not in the print version? OK, you know better than the ruddy publishers. End of discussion. Ooh "bloody" and "ruddy" in one post. Stop being a fucking dickhead and drop this more English than the English act. Says a ruddy descendant of immigrants. This post has been edited by Retrospect: |
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Says a ruddy descendant of immigrants. Now, now, let's not have any of that sort of thing. Yet more shithead raving. Let's be fair to Ottava. He has a point. The Collegiate does indeed contain a number of very short encyclopaedia-type entries that don't really belong in a dictionary. However, that's a long way from saying that the Collegiate is an unabridged dictionary. Of course it is; it is meant to be a convenient medium-sized dictionary, and indeed has fewer than half as many words as the Third New International. The idea that these very short encyclopaedia-type entries that don't really belong in a dictionary make the Collegiate somehow a more scholarly reference work than the Third New International is of course risible, as is the idea that the Third New International is in any way simplified or just intended for foreigners. What you should have said is that the Collegiate contains no words other than proper nouns that were in the New International yet were omitted from the Third New International. This post has been edited by Detective: |
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