Example sentences for: mwiii
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The biggest was that Gove had gone his merry way in producing what he considered to be a lexicon of the language but with little thought for those who were to use it: no one could call the MWIII “user-friendly” (certainly not in 1961, when, as far as I know, the expression had not yet gained currency):
But the entry for investiture in MWIII shows, for example:
The problems of binding a 3800-page book are formidable, but it can be done, and I believe that OUP customers would have been better served by being offered a one-volume edition (perhaps with a needed lectern of its own), enabling the NSOED to compete more readily with the other main contenders among large dictionaries, the MWIII and the Random House Unabridged .
At the time of publication of Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961), commonly referred to as Webster's Third (but in these pages, for the sake of brevity, as MW3 or MWIII ), I was director of the reference department of Random House, preparing what was later to be published as The Random House Dictionary of the English Dictionary - Unabridged Edition . It was therefore entirely inappropriate for me to comment on either the MWIII itself or the furor raised by its critics and supporters.
I could go on (and on) with other criticisms, but the purpose of this essay is to review Herbert Morton's book, not the MWIII , regardless of temptation.
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