The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-01-08
Worcester's Universal and Critical Die
tionary or the English Language.
BY. e. WoncrsrrR. nd. b


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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
Dictionaries united Constant reference Is made to
AUTHORITIES with respect to words newly intro
duced and is taken to note such are techni-
cal, foreign, obsolete, provincial, vulgar. The
DEFINITIONS are clear and exact, and those per-
tanning to technical and scientific terms are spe-
cially valuable to the general reader. The author
has evidently bestowed great labor on PRoNUNcIA-
TON 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 in relation to words differ
emily pronounced by different orthoepsts, gives to
this work important advantages as Pronouncing
Dictionary. In oRTHoGRAPHY he has made no arr
bitrary changes, but where usage is various and
huctuating, he has aimed to be consistent, and to
reduce to the same rules words of similar forma-
ton. The insertion of Grammatical forms and in
Elections OF words TO a much greater extent than
they are given in other English Dictionaries, and
the short critical notes the photography, the pro-
nunciation, the grammatical form and construc-
ton, and the peculiar, technical local. and Ameri-
can uses OF words nterspersed through the volume,
give To this work much additional value. The CO.
pious Vocabulary of Modern Geographical names,
with their pronunciation, and a greatly enlarged
and improved edition of Walkers Key to the pro-
nunciation OF Classical and Scripture proper names,
are important appendages to the Dictionary.
Eighteen months have passed since this Dictionary
was published; and its already extensive use both
among cultivated English readers, and men of wide
learning, affords good testimony of its merits. We
confidently recommend it as containing an ample
and careful view of the present state Of our Ian
guage-
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