Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the dictionary's function, by P.B. Gove
  • Repetition in defining, by P.B. Gove
  • Exciting new volume, by A.M. Tyson
  • Dr. Johnson and Emily Post, by A.W. Dixon
  • A case for Webster's Third, by F. Christensen
  • Telling the truth, by R.A. Hall
  • Lost causes in English usage, by J.J. Lynch
  • Dictionaries and the English language, by A.H. Marckwardt
  • Let's stop maligning the dictionary, by B. Evans
  • Cultural lag and reviewers of Webster III, by K.W. Dykema
  • Usage in the dictionary, by P.B. Gove
  • The latest word, by K. Vonnegut
  • A new big dictionary: its virtues and faults.