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following eminent testimony 10 the excellence OF
this standard dictionary.
The execution of this Dictionary fully answers
TO its title. The VOCABULARY is probably more
comprehensive than that of all preceding English
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AUTHORITIES with respect 10 words newly intro,
duced, and care IL taken TO note such techni
cal, foreign, obsolete, provincial, or vulgar. The
DEFINITIONS are clear and exact, and those per.
tanning TO technical and scientific terms are spe-
cialy valuable to the general reader. Ihe author
has evidently bestowed great labor on PRpsuNcIA.
TIoS. His system of Notation, which is aasily un.
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 In relation TO words differ
emily pronounced by different orthoepists, gives to
this work important advantages a Pronouncing
Dictionary. In oRTHoGRAPHY he has made no ar
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reduce to the same rules words of similar forma-
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Elections of words TO much greater extent than
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can uses OF words interspersed through the volume,
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with their pronunciation, and greatly enlarged
and improved edition of Walkers Key to the pro-
nunciaton of Classical and Scripture proper names,
are important appendages TO the Dictionary.
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