![]() The foreword explains what sort of problems the dictionary's College Usage Advisory Board (a group of 80 lexicographers and English professors) identified as worthy of special attention. ![]() The apparent reason is that college students lack familiarity with the language, its usage, and those features (e.g., homophones) that make English so devilish. Those few users of this dictionary who venture into its prefatory matter might conclude that English lexicography and its traditions of more than two centuries require a makeover. ![]() She is also General Editor of the Encarta World English Dictionary She is currently the "Word Watch" columnist for the Atlantic Monthly and was formerly the Executive Editor of the best-selling American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition (1992). General Editor Anne Soukhanov is one of the world's leading lexicographers.
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