the best dictionaries

[Robert Hartwell Fiske]

> A friend asked me, "How do you know what the BEST dictionaries are?"

> How do professional linguists and lexicographers answer that question?

>Well, professional lexicographers just say, "Mine is the best."


Coming in the fall of 2004, "The Dictionary of Disagreeable English: 
Ignominies of Grammar and Usage," appendix A of which is titled "The Fiske Ranking of 
College Dictionaries," which will identify the worst of them.

Preorder yours today: http://www.vocabula.com/VRorder.htm

Robert Hartwell Fiske
Editor and Publisher
The Vocabula Review
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Five by Fiske: The five essays included in this volume are as follows: 
"The Decline of the Dictionary"; "The Perfectibility of Words" and 
"The Imperfectibility of People," chapters 1 and 2 of The Dictionary 
of Concise Writing; "Expressions That Dull Our Reason and Dim Our 
Insight" and "Writing That Demands to Be Read Aloud, Speech That 
Calls to Be Captured in Print," chapters 1 and 2 of The Dimwit's Dictionary. 
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