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In a typical college dictionary, which might have, say, 85,000 headwords the entry count (which is prominently displayed in the jacket blurbs) is about twice that, or 170,000.
According to the blurbs, the former contains 2000 entries, the latter 2700; but the ODNW is more densely packed with information-- at least thirty per cent more, by my calculations.
USAT blurbs the story inside.
Let us consider the dust-jacket blurbs of Cobuild, CED , and two other native-speaker dictionaries: the British Longman Dictionary of the English Language (Longman , 1984) and the American Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary ( W9 , 1983).
Your regular column "Summary Judgment" bears the subtitle "Reviewers reviewed" but, in fact, it does not resemble the "review of reviewers" that used to run in Spy as much as it resembles a "review revue" (a title previously used by the paper I work for, the Stranger , when we condensed reviews from The New Yorker , Rolling Stone , the Village Voice , and others into three-word blurbs to run in a table atop our film listings).
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