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Loading... The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Languageby Houghton Mifflin Company
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. In terms of its physical quality this is the best book in my collection. A superb resource for the English languish. Compact enough to be handy, large enough to be authoritative. Heavily illustrated and annotated; it also include etymologies and essays on the history of the English language, Indo-European origins, usage, dialects, grammar and meaning, and spelling and pronunciation. (  ) edwardv | Nov 24, 2009 |  Fabulous book & my most favorite of all; hence it's added to the list. ( ) Amethyst26 | Jul 18, 2009 | Back in 1971 when I was fresh out of college and working at a Boston ad agency, we were launching the first edition of this outstanding dictionary. Since then, and despite the ubiquitous availability of online word-lookups, I have continued to update my AHD to the new edition whenever it's been released. It's partly brand loyalty, but moreso an appreciation for the uniquley entertaining way the dictionary was designed - with color photographs and often humorous references you won't find in Merriam Webster (and I worked on that account, too, in later years). ( ) dreamreader | Mar 26, 2009 | Although I use Merriam-Webster's Collegiate as the reference for my editing class and my own writing, the American Heritage is my favorite dictionary--for its typography and etymology. (  ) KennethWDavis | Sep 6, 2008 | What can one say it is a dictionary. Print is pretty small tough reading unless you have great eyesight. It is the one that I currently use and find it very helpful. ( ) foof2you | Aug 28, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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