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Worcester's Universal and Critical Die
tionnry or tilc English Language.
BYJ.E WoRcEsrER LID


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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 made to
AUTHORITIES with respect to words newly intro
duced, and care ia taken to note such tcchni
cal, foreign, obsolete, provincial, or vulgar. The
pEFIsITroSs clear and exact, and those per
tanning to technical and scientific terms are spe
cially valuable to the general reader. The author
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TIoN His system of Notation, which is easily 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 orhoepists, gives
this work important advantages as Pronouncing
Dictionary. In oRrHoeaApHy he has made no ar,
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fuctuating, he has aimed to be Consistent, and to
reduce to the same rules words of similar forma-
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fcctions Of words to much greater extent than
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ton, and the peculiar, technical, local. and Ameri
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pious Vocabulary of Modern Geographical names.
with their pronunciation, and greatly enlarged
and improved edition of Walkers Key to the pro-
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
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