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Title: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language by Editors of The American Heritage Dictionaries ISBN: 0-395-82517-2 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $60.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.96 (25 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Buyer Beware: The Handsome Book is Flawed!
Comment: After using "The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language" (4th ed.) on a daily basis for three weeks, I have discovered that there is a potential defect in it that prospective buyers need beware. The paper used for the pages of this dictionary is very thin, almost like tissue paper. When I turn pages in searching for a word, the bottoms of the pages become very easily chipped (small tears occur). I am very concerned that my new dictionary will become shredded within a few months. I have not had this problem with the same dictionary in the third edition; my copy is several years old. (Publisher please take note and use better paper in subsequent printings.)

I still recommend "The AHD" (4th ed.) as a very good reference dictionary, but if one plans to use it a lot as I do, then "handle with care."

Rating: 5
Summary: I like this dictionary!
Comment: I'll be short. This dictionary gives Indo-European roots for a lot of English terms. I find these Indo-European roots fascinating. Why are others not following along here? Can you imagine a dictionary of (say) Persian, which also gave etymologies and traced words all the way back to Indo-European?

But then again I'm a word-history nut. :-)

Other aspects of this dictionary are excellent. I supplement it with the two-volume OED. I'd like to have the Merriam-Webster unabridged. But this one is a real honey!

Highest recommendation!!

Rating: 5
Summary: Everyone should own this dictionary!
Comment: I believe that this is the best dictionary I have ever owned. It contains slang terms that you can not find in other dictionaries.

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