Volume 13, Number 10 · December 4, 1969
Words Enough
By W.V. Quine
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
edited by William Morris
American Heritage and Houghton Mifflin, 1600 pp., $7.95 and up
The Random House Dictionary of the English Language College Edition, 1968
edited by Laurence Urdang, edited by Stuart Berg Flexner
Random House, 1600 pp., $6.95 and up
We do not want dictionaries. (Want, v. tr. 1. to tail to have; be without; lack.) There are more dictionaries abroad than a body (Regional) can properly shake a stick at (Informal). The Random House Dictionary, Unabridged, came out three years ago. Meanwhile Random House continued to emend and reprint their stocky portable, the American College Edition, based on their Unabridged. And now there emerges from another quarter, all new, the medium-sprawling and imposingly underpriced American Heritage Dictionary.
Review, 2435 words
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