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I understand that an attempt had been made to persuade Merriam to allow the use of the entry lists for the Third Edition, but they refused.
American dictionaries based their counts on “entries,” a generously defined, arbitrarily artificial term cooked up between the G. & C. Merriam Company and the US Treasury Department during the 1930s (when that governmental department was responsible for purchasing, a function now performed by the General Services Administration).
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.
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.)
Ogilvie (170 F 167), Merriam V. Saalfield (190 F 927; 198 F 369)--the U.S.