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Appellate judges differ significantly from other groups that generate material for their own specialized dictionaries.
If the French dictionary was weak on Robinsons, the British and American dictionaries are at least as weak on Lamberts.
Early dictionaries are obviously riddled with bizarre errors of fact.
For some reason, if I have cancer , its virulence is somehow diminished if I call it the big C; a myocardial infarction seems less life-threatening than a heart attack . Work I have done on synonym dictionaries confirms that English has more equivalents, at various levels of usage, for insane than for any other concept or word in the language.
In the long run, however, dictionary reviews probably serve no function: in the face of the relatively overwhelming funds at the disposal of some publishers to promote their books, reviews fail to dissuade people from buying bad dictionaries; such a small percentage of the dictionary-buying public attend to reviews that their effect is slight even when favourable; finally, the value of a dictionary to an individual can be tested only over long use, which even the wisest reviewer cannot anticipate.