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One wonders what goes on in publishers' minds: it seems quite obvious to me that if this were a good and serviceable inexpensive version of the dictionary on which it is said to be based, Cassell's English Dictionary , then the publisher might well expect that after a time the user would feel himself ready for the larger book and would buy the larger Cassell's . In the event, it seems unlikely that such an event would take place, for this book is a sad disappointment.
In the context of the large number of dictionaries available (including all their different editions), the CCE is a serviceable work provided that one is satisfied with brief definitions of no great depth, and, essentially, a dictionary than can be used as a spelling checker.
Much of it is fresh, serviceable language, not merely humdrum technical derivatives or the names of gadgets and aliens, and has certifiable potential to enter the English language.
Failing a real hardwood blowpipe, you can buy the handsome quiver of stout rattan-bound bamboo with the poison darts (minus the poison), both authentic, and a shorter pipe of bamboo that does a perfectly serviceable job of blowing darts into your cork dartboard at home.
It is all better than serviceable, less than exciting.