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In a more recent action, initiated by Merriam in 1981, the Court of Appeals again affirmed the right of other publishers to use Webster in dictionary titles and enjoined the defendants from using any variation or combination of the words world-famous, authentic, original, genuine , or renowned to suggest a connection between their product and the Merriam-Webster line of dictionaries (Merriam v.
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).
But G. & C. Merriam (as the company was then styled) was not Philip Gove, and some of the less savory practices of that organization's salesmen during the late 1950s—always vigorously denied as company policy by executives—inevitably rubbed off on those who one hopes were innocent of such activities.
The 1983 edition of Webster's Ninth New Collegiate introduced the practice of giving, in the etymologies, “dates of earliest occurrence,” data presumably derived from the Oxford English Dictionary (for, while Merriam and Random House maintained a citation file for the tracking of new words and senses, there was no point in duplicating work done long ago by Murray, et al.)
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.
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