The republic., 1851-11-01
WOrcester's Universal and Critical Die
tIonary OF the English Language.
BYJ.E. WoRcEsrER, LII. ID

BYJ. E. WoRcEsTER, LII.
One volume, SUO. sheep, 1882 PGges-PTice s. 90
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comprehensive than that Of all preceding English
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AUTHORITIES with respect to words newly intro
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call foreign, obsolete, provincial, or vulgar. The
DEFISITIoNs are clear and exact, and those per-
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dcrstood, and founded on more complete analysis
of the vowel sounds than we have elsewhere met
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best English authorities In relation to words dHer-
emily pronounced by different orthoepists, gives to
this work important advantages as a Pronounclng
Dictionary. In oRTHoGRAPHy he has made no ar
bitrary changes, but where usage is various and
fiuctuating he has aimed to be consistent, and to
reduce TO the same rules words OF similar lorna
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