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Dictionary editors like you and Anne Soukhanov and Sidney Landau know the fine distinctions that exist among dictionaries.
Of course, not all Scotticisms have been excised, and words like auld, land , and syne are probably still to be found in many dictionaries, but only because they are frequent.
But one must be grateful to Jonathon Green at least for the first fourteen chapters, which gather in one place an enormous amount of interesting, useful information about (deceased) lexicographers and the dictionaries they prepared.
Of the three suggested uses for the books— teaching or learning English word formation, employing the list as a source of frequently used words, and having available “only items actually found in English texts, without the—often delightful—oddities one can find in larger dictionaries”—the last seems to me the most telling.
As one case in point, I cite The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition , in which, possibly in order to mimic other dictionaries but probably because there are few things that designers can get their grubby little fingers into, the main entry words were reset in sans-serif type, presumably just to make them harder to read.