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Those who enjoy word play—which includes certain puzzle solvers who seem to need all the help they can find that is not already provided by dictionaries, special puzzlers' reference books, thesauruses, etc.—should find Endangered a useful, welcome addition to their libraries.
But when it comes to dictionaries, editors appear to consider them fair game for almost anyone, and they often assign novelists to write the review.
There are five major dictionaries of approximately the same size competing for buyers in the market.
I have never understood why the International Phonetic Alphabet is not used in English dictionaries of all sorts, but this is beyond the scope of our remarks in this review.
To put the extent of the work into perspective, the average college (or desk) dictionary, like the Random House Webster, Webster New World, American Heritage , and Collins English dictionaries, contain about 175,000 entries, which translates into approximately 85-90,000 headwords.