Merriam-Webster's Pocket Dictionary

Merriam-Webster's Pocket Dictionary
Author: Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher: Merriam-Webster Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780877795308

A perfect dictionary for quick, on-the-go language reference features 40,000 entries as well as clear, concise, definitions, variant spellings, and pronunciations. Includes a brief guide to punctuation.

Webster's Vest Pocket Dictionary

Webster's Vest Pocket Dictionary
Author: Daniel Webster
Publisher:
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1995-09
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780395744482

This pocket dictionary contains 35,000 definitions and notes, pronunciations, inflected forms, irregular plurals, and variants. It includes guides to punctuation, measurement systems, and proofreader's marks.

The New Webster Dictionary and Complete Vest-Pocket Library

The New Webster Dictionary and Complete Vest-Pocket Library
Author: Noah Webster
Publisher: Andesite Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2015-08-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781296555580

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Word by Word

Word by Word
Author: Kory Stamper
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2018-03-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 110197026X

“We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets.” With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions of ever-changing word usage. Filled with fun facts—for example, the first documented usage of “OMG” was in a letter to Winston Churchill—and Stamper’s own stories from the linguistic front lines (including how she became America’s foremost “irregardless” apologist, despite loathing the word), Word by Word is an endlessly entertaining look at the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of the English language.