The Reader's Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTIONS
Supervisory Board iv
Editorial Staff iv
Advisory Board v
Contributing Specialists vi
Preface vii
The Plan of the Standard College Dictionary viii
Pronunciations by James B. McMillan x
Level and Style Labels by Frederic G. Cassidy xi- '
Etymologies by Albert H. Marckwardt xii
Synonyms by S. I. Hayakawa xiii
Abbreviations Used in the Standard College Dictionary xv
Pronunciation Key xvi
Specimen Entries xvii
The Plan of the Special Supplements xviii
THE STANDARD COLLEGE DICTIONARY: A-Z 1-1565
FOREIGN-LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES
Langenscheidt's Universal German-English 1568
English-German 1623
Larousse's French-English 1666
English-French 1711
The University of Chicago Spanish-English 1768
English-Spanish 1804
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
The Story of Writing by I. J. Gelb 1848
A Brief History of the English Language by Allen Walker Read 1851
Word Origins by Wilfred Funk 1855
A Guide to Better Usage 1864
Writing and Speaking 1919
Spelling 1919
Punctuation 1923
Capitalization 1927
Grammar 1929
Correspondence 1937
Manuscript Preparation 1943
Pronunciation—Right and Wrong by Wilfred Funk 1946 Regional Variations in American Pronunciation
by Charles K. Thomas 1949
SPECIALIZED DICTIONARIES
A Dictionary of Space by Willy Ley 1952
A Dictionary of Medical Terms 1971 A Dictionary of Selected American Slang
by Harold Wentworth and Sluart Berg Flezner 1997
A Dictionary of Quotations from The Reader's Digest 2022
First Names 2067
Signs and Symbols 2077
How to Find Out What You Want to Know by Charles W. Ferguson
2083

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