Albert H. Marckwardt

PREFACEAnyone who has the temerity to come forward with a treatment of American Enghsh at this particular time necessarily incurs both a responsibility and a debt. The responsibility is that of saying something that has not been said before. The debt, obviously, is to all of the painstaking and...

PREFACE Anyone who has the temerity to come forward with a treatment of American English at this particular time necessarily incurs both a responsibility and a debt. The responsibility is that of saying something that has not been said before. The debt, obviously, is to all of the painstaking...

PREFACEThis dictionary contains over 100,000 entries, offering comprehensive coverage of the general vocabulary and including many scientific and technical terms seldom found in dictionaries of comparable size. Based upon the considerably larger Standard College Dictionary, it represents an...