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From: gary@arizona.UUCP (Gary Marc Levin)
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Subject: Re: Dictionaries
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Date: Sun, 3-Feb-85 19:10:47 EST
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> What dictionaries are considered authoritative?
    Authoritative toward what end?  OED is tops for historical
    perspective.  Some are proscriptive, others descriptive.  I have
    Webster's Seventh New Collegiate, the OED, and American Heritage;
    different needs, different books.

> One "feature" of the dictionary is that the index inserts (so you can
> turn directly to the "H"'s) do not begin where the corresponding letters
> begin.  

    I actually have two copies of the American Heritage, one with the
    thumb-index correctly placed and one askew as you describe.  I
    think it's a bug, not a feature.
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Gary Levin / Dept of CS / U of AZ / Tucson, AZ 85721 / (602) 621-4231