Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!utcs!justin From: justin@utcs.UUCP (Justin Bur) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: Dictionaries Message-ID: <428@utcs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Feb-85 11:03:51 EST Article-I.D.: utcs.428 Posted: Fri Feb 8 11:03:51 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Feb-85 12:26:35 EST References: <1933@inmet.UUCP> <878@gloria.UUCP> Reply-To: justin@utcs.UUCP (Justin Bur) Organization: University of Toronto - General Purpose UNIX Lines: 22 Summary: Merriam-Webster isn't the only good Webster In article <878@gloria.UUCP> colonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) writes: > Any dictionary called "Webster's" not published by Merriam is probably > poor. Conversely, most poor dictionaries are called "Webster's." You > can judge for yourself. > -- > Col. G. L. Sicherman > ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel The Webster's New World Dictionary that several people have mentioned already is not published by Merriam (it's from Simon and Schuster) but it is certainly not poor. I prefer it to the equivalent Merriam (the Collegiate). But apart from the Merriam-Websters and the New World, I don't know of any good dictionaries called "Webster's". -- university of toronto computing services justin bur {decvax,ihnp4,utcsrgv,{allegra,linus}!utzoo}!utcs!justin utcsrgv becomes utcsri on 14 February