Example sentences for: merriam

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  • 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.

  • As it happened, the first plans for the expansion of the ACD were discussed in 1958, when the people at Random House had no inkling of a forthcoming new edition from Merriam; as I have described elsewhere, from its conception, the plans for the RHD were entirely market-driven.

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • The estimate suggests something less than the entry count of the Merriam-Webster 12,000 Words , which is billed as a supplement to the Merriam Third , but there the comparison ends.


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