The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-07
Worcester Universal and Critical Die
tIonnry OF the English Language.
BYJ.E. WoRcEsrER, LII. D

BYJ. E. WORCESTER, LII. d
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The execution ofthis Dictionaryfully yanswers
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 care is taken TO note such aretechni
call foreign obsolete, provincial, or vulgar. The
DEFISITIoNs are clear and exact, and those per-
tanning to technical and scientific terms spe-
cally valuable to the general reader. The author
has evidently bestowed great labor on PRoNUNcIA-
TON. 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 orthoepists, gives to
this work important advantages as Pronouncing
Dictionary. In oRTHoGRAPHY he has made no ar
bitrary changes, but where usage is various and
huctuating, he has aimed to be consistent, and to
reduce to the same rules words ofsimilar forma-
ton. The insertion of Grammatical forms and in-
Elections of words TO much greater extent than
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the short critical notes the photography the pro-
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ton, and the peculiar, technical, local, and Amer-
can uses of fwordsinterspersed through the volume,
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piouo Vocabulary of Modern Geographical names
with their pronunciation, and greatly enlarged
and improved edition of Walker s Key to the pro-
ANNEXATION of Cassicaland Scriptureproper names,
are important appcndages to the Dictionary.
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among cultivated English readers and men Of wide
learning, affords good testimony ofits merits. We
confidently recommend it as containing an ample
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