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A piece on the WP front reports on an organized protest campaign of thousands of angry phone calls, letters and e-mails directed at Merriam-Webster because of its current dictionary's definition of "nigger" as "a black person--usually taken to be offensive."
It is only from an article about CED that we learn it has “171,000 entries,” which suggests that Collins means by references what Merriam-Webster means by entries . But CED and Cobuild certainly do not say so!
In discussing the third edition of Merriam-Webster's New International Dictionary (MW-III), Green describes one of its main advances as a general move away from America's traditional prescriptive lexicography, towards a more descriptive, British style.
The two larger one-volume works available are The Random House Unabridged (with 315,000 entries) and the Merriam-Webstar Unabridged, Third Edition (with about 460,000 entries).
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.