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Consider that the OED , which makes no pretensions at being exhaustive or complete, occupies some twenty quarto volumes in its description of the lexicon alone; consider that a descriptive bibliography of the huge number of lexicographical works on the myriad aspects of English alone would occupy several similar volumes; consider the multivolume works on English grammar--by Curme, Poutsma, Jespersen, et al.; consider the immense corpus of English literature and of the writings about it; and then consider all the material ancillary to the foregoing: the teaching of English not only to foreign learners but to native speakers as well, the conventions of writing, punctuation, usage, and pronunciation, the multifarious influences of English and on English around the world, the study of style and of literary devices, etymology, etc.
50 a year rather than $5 because by not giving away the microwave I am foregoing not only the $50 but also the interest I would have earned on the $50 for 10 years.)
But the foregoing is all preliminary and background to the main theme.
The foregoing is not entirely irrelevant to my comments on the book at hand, for it would be unfair to review it as a dictionary, comparing it with other dictionaries.