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The new Johnson-Webster dictionary?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

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Dr Johnson said it all: ‘Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite right.’ What was true in the middle of the 18th century is still true, but where in the good doctor's spectrum does the new and weighty 1,876-page Longman tome lie – nearer the better-than-none or close to the never-quite-good-enough?

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English Today , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , April 1985 , pp. 43 - 44
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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