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Worcester's Universal and Critical Die
tionary OF the English Language
By j. L. WORCESTER, LII.

BY }. h. WORCESTER, LII. ID.
One ooi1He, Suo. sheep, 1882 pages-P,ice IS so
The publishers respectfully invite attention To the
following eminent testimony TO the excellence of
this standard dictionary.
The execution of this Dictionary fully answers
to It's title. The VOCABULARY is probably more
comprehensive than that of all preceding English
Dictionaries united. Constant reference is made 10
AUTHORITIES with respect To words newly intro
duced and care Is taken 10 note such are techni-
cal, foreign, obsolete, provincial, or vulgar The
DEFINITIONS are clear and exact, and those per-
tanning TO technical and scientific terms are spc-
cially valuable TO the general reader. The author
has evidently bestowed great labor on pRoNUNcIA-
TIoN. His system of Notation, which is easily
derstood, and founded on more complete ANALYSIS
of the vowel sounds than we have elsewhere met
with, together with his plan of exhibiting all the
best English authorities III relation TO words differ
emily pronounced by different orhoepsts, gives to
this work important advantages as Pronouncing
Dictionary. In oRTHoGRAPHY he has made
bitrary changes, but where usage Is various and
tiuctuating he has aimed to be consistent and 10
reduce TO the same rules words of similar forma
ton. The insertion Of Grammatical forms and in
f1ectlons OF words TO much greater extent than
they given in other English Dictionaries, and
the short critical notes the photography the pro-
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ton, and the peculiar, technical, local. and Amer-
can uses of words interspersed through the volume,
give to this work much additional value The
pioue Vocabulary of Modern Geographical names,
and improved edition of Walkers Key to the pro-
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are important aPpendages to the Dictionary.
Eighteen months have passed since this Dictionary
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among cultivated English readers, and men of wide
learning, affords good testimony of its merits We
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