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It is true that the principles that apply to specialized dictionaries are not the same as those that apply to general dictionaries, either monolingual or bilingual.
A very recent development, of British origin, is the addition of names to monolingual dictionaries of English as a Second Language [ESL], such as the new encyclopedic edition of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (1992).
The results are seen on the bookshelves of bookshops throughout the world: adequate but largely pedestrian bilingual dictionaries and a scattering of monolingual works that have been resurrected by greedy publishers who have engaged dryasdust editors to update out-dated, out-of-copyright dictionaries in order to make a fast buck.
It is important to note that Paul Procter, in his Foreword, describes this dictionary as designed for the foreign learner of English in any part of the world; thus, it should not be judged on the same terms as are other monolingual dictionaries of like size, 100,000 words and phrases defined,... under 50,000 headwords.
The nondrinking, nonsmoking, noncarousing, and mostly monolingual CIA officials of today do not have the vices of either their more adventurous contemporaries or their flamboyant Ivy League predecessors, but it is really unfair to expect them to cope with all those foreigners out there.
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