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Circuit Court of Appeals ruled partly for Merriam, partly for the competition: Merriam lost its right to the exclusive use of the name Webster , but since that company had become known to the public as the publisher of Noah Webster's dictionaries, would-be Websters were ordered to disclaim on their title pages any connection with the original word book.
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.
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).
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.
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).
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