The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-01-22
Worcester's UniversnI and Critical Die
iOnary OF the Engiish Language
Br j. L. WORCESTER, LII. d

BYJ. L. WORCESTER, LII. ID
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The e3 cution ofthis Dictionaryfull yanswcrs
to its title. The VOCABULARY is probably more
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AUTHORITIEs with respect to words newly intro
duced, and care 10 talk to note such as retechn-
CAL foreign, obsolete, provincial, or vulgar. The
DEFINITIONS arc clear and exact, and those per-
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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
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Dictionary. In oRTHooRAPHY he has made no ar
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reduce to the same rules words of similar forma-
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