Webster's 11th came out in 2003. It's the standard dictionary used by most publishing houses, including my employer, and I remember how disappointed I was when they replaced my 10th (from 1998) with the 11th. First of all, the 11th uses this new sans-serif typeface (like Arial on MS Word) that seems too childish to me. And they replaced the dust jacket with a pre-printed hardcover, like the covers of grade school textbooks. There's a CD-ROM in the back but I never use it. Maybe I'm just a curmudgeon, but there used to be a real charm in just physically handling the dictionary -- the texture of the paper, the cloth binding, the little flecks on the cut edges of the pages, the old-fashioned typeface, etc. -- and a lot of that is gone in the 11th. The good news is you can probably pick up a copy of the 10th for a great price at a used bookstore or through third-party sellers on amazon. I'm sure the words inside didn't change much.
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Webster's 11th came out in 2003. It's the standard dictionary used by most publishing houses, including my employer, and I remember how disappointed I was when they replaced my 10th (from 1998) with the 11th. First of all, the 11th uses this new sans-serif typeface (like Arial on MS Word) that seems too childish to me. And they replaced the dust jacket with a pre-printed hardcover, like the covers of grade school textbooks. There's a CD-ROM in the back but I never use it. Maybe I'm just a curmudgeon, but there used to be a real charm in just physically handling the dictionary -- the texture of the paper, the cloth binding, the little flecks on the cut edges of the pages, the old-fashioned typeface, etc. -- and a lot of that is gone in the 11th. The good news is you can probably pick up a copy of the 10th for a great price at a used bookstore or through third-party sellers on amazon. I'm sure the words inside didn't change much.
Merriam-Webster introduced its Collegiate Dictionary in 1898 and the series is now in its 11th edition.
What is a Dictionary? LOL