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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
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Subject: Re: Dictionaries
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Date: Tue, 26-Feb-85 12:43:44 EST
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Summary: "Webster's" doesn't mean anything by itself


Perhaps it's as well to mention that various dictionaries called "Webster's"
need not be related to each other; nobody has exclusive rights to the name,
and anybody can put the name on their dictionary in the hope of getting you
to buy it.  It's exactly like "Hoyle's" on books of rules of games.
So if you want to compare something to a "Webster's" dictionary, say which one.

Mark Brader
Personally, I use the Random House Unabridged.