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worcester's Universal and Critical Die
tionary OF the English Language.
BYJ E. WORCESTER, LII. ID


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The execution Of this Dictionary fully answers
to its title The VOCABULARY Is probably more
comprehensive than that of all preceding English
Dictionaries united. Constant reference ia made 10
AUTHORITIES with respect to words newly intro
duced, and care is taken to note such are techni
cal, foreign, obsolete, provincial, or vulgar. The
DEFINITIONS clear and exact, and those per-
tanning TO technical and scientific terms spe-
cially valuable to the general reader. The author
has evidently bestowed great labor on rRoSyNorA-
TON. His system of Notation, which is easily UNI
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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 as a Pronouncing
Dictionary. In oRTHoGRAPHY he has made no ar
btrary changes, but where usage is various and
fiuctuating, he has aimed to be consistent and to
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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published; and its already extensive use, both
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