Webster's English Usage Dictionary

Author: Merriam-Webster Company
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Publication Date: 1996-12-01
Features: This book is a key part of the large-scale language reference works published by the renowned American Merriam-Webster Company. It boasts a vast vocabulary and provides detailed annotations for each entry. The book includes over 20,000 illustrative citations, which are carefully selected from nearly 14 million citations collected over more than a century from thousands of sources by the Merriam-Webster editorial team. The citations focus on clarifying and resolving doubts about usage. The references are emphasized for their scientific rigor and objectivity, ensuring that they are drawn from classical and modern writers with strong language skills, making them representative. Due to its practicality, authority, and academic value, this book is widely recognized as the most comprehensive English usage reference of the 20th century, becoming an indispensable tool for libraries, and.