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From: justin@utcs.UUCP (Justin Bur)
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Subject: Re: Dictionaries
Message-ID: <428@utcs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Feb-85 11:03:51 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  8 11:03:51 1985
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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".

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university of toronto computing services	  justin bur
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