The republic., 1851-02-18
Worcegter's Universal and Critical Die
tioMary OF tho English Language.
BYJ. Z. WORCESTER, LII. d

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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 is made to
AUTHORITIES with respect to words newly intro
duccd, and is taken to note such as are techn
cal, foreign, obsolete, provincial or vulgar. The
pErINIrIoSs arc clear and exact, and those per-
tanning to technical and scientific terms are spc-
cially valuable to the general reader. The author
has evidently bestowed great labor on PRoNuNcIA-
rIoN. 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 orthocpists, gives
this work important advantages as Pronouncng
Dictionary. In oRTHooRAPHy nc 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 a much greater extent than
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