Webster's New World (was: Slay, ?slayed?)

[Dennis R. Preston]

>What's more the late Harold Whitehall lent his expertise to what was
>for a time the very best historical/etymological info one could get
>in a smaller dictionary (and in some cases, I am sorry to say, the
>best one could get anywhere).

dInIs

>On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:23:34PM -0600, Victoria Neufeldt wrote:
>  > Thank you, Jesse.  I wasn't going to say anything . . .  (But of
>>  course David Guralnik was one of the finest lexicographers of the 20th
>>  century, tops in analysis as well as the writing of definitions.)
>
>Well, of course I couldn't let that go by!
>
>Best,
>
>Jesse