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Title: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition by Merriam-Webster ISBN: 0-87779-809-5 Publisher: Merriam-Webster, Inc. Pub. Date: July, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.35 (23 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best dictionary ever
Comment: Best dictionary ever.. that describes it. A great dictionary for the house, school, or work. Will always help you to spell the words and find the definitions.The 11th edition includes 10,000 new words and more than 100,000 new meanings and revisions among its 225,000 definitions. And it is at a great price. Finding the words are a snap and it gives you nice clear definitions. The Win/Mac CD-ROM, and a free, one-year subscription to a new premium Web site, Merriam-WebsterCollegiate.com is great to helping you find the words quick, easier, and when i dictionary is not usefull. I great buy. Recomend it to teachers, students, College grads, or anyone!
Rating: 5
Summary: Worth the price for the CD-ROM alone
Comment: Unlike prescriptive dictionaries such as the American Heritage Dictionary, which rely on self-appointed panels of "experts" to decide what correct usage should be, descriptive dictionaries such as this and Merriam-Webster's Third International try to keep pace with how the language is actually used by speakers. This may explain why the Webster's Collegiate dictionaries have been the standard reference in the American publishing industry for a long time.
This is easily the best dictionary of its class, period. It has an extraordinarily large number of entries and its definitions are concise and easy to understand. The only shortcoming is that there are few example sentences, but this is a necessary tradeoff to keep the size under control. For sheer richness of information it doesn't compare to the New Shorter OED, for example, but then again you can't toss the NSOED into your backpack and take it to school with you. This book is light and compact.
But the thing that really sets this dictionary apart is the CD-ROM. You can search for words using up to 15 different operations, including "rhymes with," "is a cryptogram of," "homophones are," "etymology includes," etc. You can use AND and OR operators to combine the various operations. These search functions are a tremendous asset to anybody who works with words, particularly writers, poets, and songwriters.
And did I mention that you get a free one-year subscription to their online dictionary with your purchase?
This package is a tremendous value for the money and really belongs in every home and office. And I have no doubt that Webster's 11 will continue to be the gold standard in the publishing industry for the foreseeable future. --This text refers to an edition which conatins a CD-ROM. Not all editions of this item contain a CD. Please check the item desription for further information.--
Rating: 2
Summary: I don't understand
Comment: This book has got me stumped. Being a huge Webster fan I couldn't be more disappointed. Not a single picture of my little man. The book doesn't even talk about him. No pictures - nothing. Not even a mention Alex Karras (George). "Merriam Webster"?? What's that? Is it like some caveman speak for "Webster's happy"? And what does he have to be happy about? - he's surely gets minimal exposure from this publication.
Apart from my initial disappointment this book doesn't even make sense. I couldn't follow the plot and trying to read all the many sub-chapters aloud is a futile exercise in alliteration.
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Title: The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition by University of Chicago Press Staff ISBN: 0226104036 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
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Title: Merriam Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus by Merriam-Webster, Merriam-Webster ISBN: 0877791694 Publisher: Merriam-Webster, Inc. Pub. Date: January, 1994 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Roget International Thesaurus Indexed Edition by Barbara Ann Kipfer ISBN: 0060185759 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 15 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms by Merriam-Webster ISBN: 0877799067 Publisher: Merriam-Webster Mass Market Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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Title: The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition by William Strunk Jr., E.B. White, Roger Angell ISBN: 020530902X Publisher: Pearson Higher Education Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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