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More and more, however, the flow is not unidirectional: most English-speaking monolingual Quebecer will use metro for subway, dépanneur for convenience store , and caisse populaire instead of cooperative bank .
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.
Preparing a monolingual English dictionary, lexicographers who are native speakers of English may often turn to citations of usage in context to derive or verify senses of some words; but for words whose meanings they already know, they can rely on their own knowledge and use citations for confirmation.
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.
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