The random house dictionary of the english language, college. The random house college dictionary by randon house. Hedges and meaning criteria, in mcdavid and duckert 1973 14453. In turn, the public has come to expect certain conventional features see below features and problems, and a publisher departs from the conventions at his peril. The cdrom version in 1994 also included 120,000 spoken pronunciations. Random house dictionary of the english language college edition laurence urdang on. Random house websters dictionary is your onestop reference book. It was the first dictionary to use computers in its compilation and typesetting. Random house websters college dictionary by random house firm publication date 1999 topics english language.
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