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288 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780393316063
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 17 August 1997
Description
We often hear about the richness of the English language, how many more words it contains than French or German. And yet modern desk dictionaries are the result of a paring away of that glory, so that merely standard, functional, current words rem...
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288 pages • first pub 1994 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780393316063
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: 17 August 1997
Description
We often hear about the richness of the English language, how many more words it contains than French or German. And yet modern desk dictionaries are the result of a paring away of that glory, so that merely standard, functional, current words rem...