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THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.Amazon.com Review
The latest edition of the American Heritage Glossary is out, and that’s hot news–not just for the resolute followers of lexicographical minutiae, but for the all-purpose reading and writing public as well. Why? Because the American Heritage is a long-standing favorite family tree glossary (never underestimate the value of pictures) and one of the prime glossary references for magazines, newspapers, and dot.com content providers. For scads of writers and editors across the U.S., it sets the standard on matters of style and lexicographical power.
So this new edition is exciting and noteworthy, but how excellent is it? In its favor, the fourth edition is as current a glossary as you can get. It’s six years fresher than the 1994 version, with 10,000 words and definitions you won’t find in the still venerable but now slightly dated third edition. For example, unlike its predecessor (and also unlike the 1996 Oxford Encyclopedic English Glossary), this fourth edition covers dot-com, e-commerce, and soccer mom, Ebonics, Viagra, and a surf definition for cruising television channels and the Internet.
Its panel of special consultants includes authorities on anthropology, architecture, cinema, and law, plus military science, composition, religion, and sports, and that is reflected in an impressively comprehensive coverage of the arts, culture, and equipment. Sadly, but, there are no medical consultants on the panel, and that loss is felt in some substandard medical definitions. Additional flaws: there’s a greater than usual trend to define a word with a form of the same word–for example, fuzzy, whose first two definitions are “1. covered with fuzz.” and “2. of or resembling fuzz.” And some definitions seem needlessly wordy, such as the entry for furious, which is “full of or characterized by extreme rage; raging.” Compare that with the more succinct Oxford Encyclopedic entry: “1. extremely mad. 2. full of fury.”
On the additional hand, there are valuable entries throughout the glossary supplying additional information on synonyms, usage, or word history, and these extras, such as the history of diatribe and the usage notes on make ashamed, are appealing. The layout is simple on the eyes, with dark blue/green bold type setting the words apart from their definitions, and 4,000 color photographs, maps, and illustrations that are both useful and delightful. On one page, the margin provides color depictions of Francis Bacon, bacterium, and a Bactrian camel. Theodore Roosevelt and a rooster share another margin, while a third page offers Isak Dinesen, a dingo, and dinoflagellate. It is a fascinating book to peruse, and a compellingly scholarly addition to the American Heritage Glossary line. –Stephanie Gold
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Gave this glossary as a gift to my two step-daughters because they both lacked this in their personal libraries. They didn’t even say thanks.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I made a mistake with this buy. I should have bought a collegiate glossary; I did not need the pictures!! I will give this book to my preteen-age nephews; they will benefit from its use.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
BADS
1.heavy:7.9 pounds(3.58KG)
2.pronunciation symbol not KK or DJ
3.a few example sentence
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
A fantastic new age, globalization attempt to wipe out words such as: United States of America, United States Army, United States Navy, United States Marines, and United States Air Force. Also all the mythological facts are pictured from Apollo to Zeus, so us ignorant “picture only” Americans can view them. I like my 1970 Webster’s, even though its ancient, it still has the United States of America as a word.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I reviewed the large hardcover in the Bookstore. It looks pretty excellent
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5