Professional Glossaries - 2nd request

Kathleen Miller millerk at NYTIMES.COM
Fri Nov 12 16:24:04 UTC 1999


Bryan Garner - just recently put out the seventh edition, in fact it was
published in August


At 10:50 AM 11/12/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Whch edition of Black's is the "new edition". I've been using the Fifth
>Edition since 1976. I'm guessing it's "abominable" but I don't know for sure
>'cause it seems to work pretty good.  :-)
>
>Bob
>
>Fred Shapiro wrote:
>
>> Bethany,
>>
>> I don't know if by "glossaries" you mean brief word-lists, as opposed to
>> full-length books, but in law the new edition of Black's Law Dictionary is
>> reasonably good (former editions were abominable).
>>
>> Fred R. Shapiro                             Coeditor (with Jane Garry)
>> Associate Librarian for Public Services     TRIAL AND ERROR: AN OXFORD
>>   and Lecturer in Legal Research            ANTHOLOGY OF LEGAL STORIES
>> Yale Law School                             Oxford University Press, 1998
>> e-mail: fred.shapiro at yale.edu               ISBN 0-19-509547-2



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