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Not so with Webster , for, owing to a bit of folly in the 1930s, G. & C. Merriam Company, of Springfield, Massachusetts, successors to the line of dictionaries originated by Noah Webster, published a synonym dictionary and called it a Webster . World Publishing Company, of Cleveland, had the wit to see that Merriam had, in effect, forsworn its birthright, for Noah had never published a synonym dictionary.
Those wishing to supplement their aging Webster's Third New International (Merriam, 1961) and unwilling to spend about thirty dollars more for the recent editions of the Random House Unabridged or World Book Dictionary would be very well served by the TBDNE . It should be noted, however, that the TBDNE , in including the work of its predecessors, represents a departure from their approach.
Also, considering that the costs of the conference were borne almost entirely by the NYAS (with contributions from the Center for Applied Linguistics, G. & C. Merriam Company, Holt, Rinehart & Winston of Canada, Limited, Laurence Urdang Inc., Longman Group Limited, Scott Foresman and Company, and Wm.
Cannon tabulated an attrition rate of 1.5% for new meanings and new items originally admitted to the Merriam Addenda Sections which were cumulatively included in reprints of Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language (1961) at five-year intervals in the 1966-81 period, but then were excluded from Merriam's 9,000 Words (1983).
Merriam's 12,000 Words has entries for Pinteresque, pistou , and place value , again a reflection of what the vast Merriam files have yielded up.
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