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description: This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 0-395-09066-0 / 978-0-395-09066-4.more credited people: see bottomThe American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language is a completely new dictionary – new in content, new in format, new in the wealth of information it offers. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language presents not only words and their meanings but also extensive notes on how to use the language, prepared with the assistance of more than a hundred of America's most notable writers, editors, and public speakers.Among the many special features that make The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language clearly superior to any comparable dictionary are:- Clear, cogent, readily understandable definitions, succinctly stated with no confusing abbreviations, signs and symbols.- Word histories that trace all the Indo-European roots of English, for the first time in any dictionary.- A pronunciation key, repeated on each two-page spread, that is the most complete and easiest to use in any college dictionary.- Thousands of new words from the world of science and technology and authoritative coverage of all technical fields.- Hundreds of notes on synonyms. each clearly showing the subtle differences between words of closely similar meaning, to help the dictionary user find precisely the right word.- Hundreds of illustrative quotations from literature–from Shakespeare to Sontag and Salinger–to help the dictionary user grasp the meaning by seeing the word in the context of a quotation from a skillful writer.- Introductory series of articles by seven eminent scholars on aspects of English illuminated by modern linguistic science: on the history of the English language; on the Indo-European origins of English; on the question of correct usage today and in historical perspective; on American regional dialects; on generative and transformational grammar; on the relationship between spelling and pronunciation in English; and on the application of computer techniques to the analysis of language.- Distinguished literary, academic, scientific, and technical consultants in all fields.- More than 4,000 illustrations – photographs, paintings, drawings – especially chosen or created for this Dictionary to supplement the definitions in the text; several hundred specially drawn locator maps, representing every nation and major territory in the world, as well as half-page maps of the United States and Canada.- Thousands of capsule biographies of leading figures–both past and present–in history, art, literature, and science.- Geographic data on all major cities of the world, together with major physical features of the earth's surface.- All information, except the appendix of Indo-European roots, entered in one alphabetical listing to eliminate the necessity of consulting many separate supplements. Articles and charts on such subjects as geologic time, color, measurement, and subatomic particles in the main text of the dictionary–often with specially drawn charts, graphs, or other illustrations.- In sum, the freshest, most innovative, and most useful dictionary to be published in this century.
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language: English
title: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
publisher: American Heritage Publishing Company, Inc., and Houghton Mifflin Company