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Some of the smaller dictionaries, from the MW-III and the Random House Unabridged on down through the college and desk sizes, contain etymologies reflecting up-to-date scholarship but these works may not be particularly user-friendly: after all, surveys have shown that etymological information is that least frequently sought by dictionary users, so it ill behooves publishers to devote a great deal of expensive space to it.
Such a move had, indeed, taken place many years before Philip Gove's editorship of the MW-III and is evidenced in such works as the Merriam-Webster Collegiate, Webster's New World, and American College dictionaries, among others.
On page 366 Green refers to the MW-III as containing 450,000 headwords: it does not, of course; it contains 450,000 entries.
The notion of entry, as described many times in these pages, includes (1) head-word,(2) inflected forms (which, in the sole case of the MW-III , includes regular inflections, which pumps up the entry count considerably), (3) changes in parts of speech, (4) embedded boldface entries (like idioms and phrases), (5) run-on forms (those that are added at the ends of entries to illustrate headwords with suffixes of transparent meaning added, e.g., national and nationally run on to nation and nationalization run on to nationalize , (6) spelling variants (like British honour, nationalise, nationalisation , etc.).
I do not know how many headwords the MW-III contains, but it is far, far fewer than the 450,000 entries claimed.
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