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The simple facts are that American college (or desk) dictionaries today contain about 170,000 entries (about half that number of headwords), up from the ±130,000 they had till the 1960s); British concise dictionaries contain far fewer than that: the Concise Oxford , the best-selling dictionary in the UK, contains about 120,000 entries (probably not more than about 60,000 headwords), which is equivalent to what are classed as concise dictionaries in America.
Cobuild: over 70,000 references CED: 170,000 references Longman: Over 225,000 definitions and more than 90,000 headwords W9: Almost 160,000 entries and 200,000 definitions
Also, the alphabetical order might prove a bit off-putting for some, for phrasal verbs are set flush left with a hanging indention (like headwords) immediately after the main verb: for instance, take , which has fifteen main entries of its own (for reasons we shall get to), is followed by headword-style entries for take after, take against , etc., through take up with ; it is only then that one reaches the entry for takeaway .
Then there is the question, Why are both singular and plural forms shown for the headwords?
One feature of the earlier books in the series has unfortunately not been kept in TBDNE --the use of centered dots within headwords to show syllabication points.