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had much to do with the application of modern linguistic theory to lexicography; the list of publications he has edited includes such landmarks as the Dictionary of American English (University of Chicago Press), the Thorndike-Barnhart School Dictionaries series (Scott Foresman; the top-selling school dictionaries in the U.S.), the American College Dictionary (Random House), the New Century Cyclopedia of Names (Appleton-Century-Crofts), and the World Book Dictionary (little known, sadly, but one of the best unabridged dictionaries still being kept current).
Beale can scarcely be held accountable for Barnhart's scholarship, but I can say that I personally know the term to have been used in the early 1950s, and I did not then get the impression that it had been coined for my benefit.
This Third Barnhart Dictionary of New English [TBDNE] follows on two others of similar purpose and style that appeared in 1973 and 1980, respectively, published by Harper & Row.
This dictionary might be said to be the grandson of The Random House Dictionary of the English Language - College Edition , 1968, of which I was editor in chief (with the late Stuart B. Flexner as managing editor) and the great-grandson of the American College Dictionary [ ACD ], 1947, of which Clarence L. Barnhart was editor in chief.
Of these 50 entries, 18 come from the 1963 book (4 dropped), all 27 were taken from the 1980, and 5 new items were added: goldbug , golden parachute, gold rush (new sense), golf ball (new sense), and gomer . Two of the five are to be found in the BDC , while entries for all appear in the World Book Dictionary (1989 edition), also produced by the Barnhart staff.
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