Most Popular Dictionaries in Libraries

[Fred Shapiro]

On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, David Bergdahl wrote:

> <snip>I am puzzled that the excellent, and I
> would have thought, very popular Merriam-Webster dictionaries are not
> higher on the list.</snip>
>
> Adding items 18 (1993) & 19 (2003) together with 3500+ copies would make it
> #1

I don't think that is meaningful, since there would be great overlap
between the libraries having one edition and the libraries having the
other edition.

Fred Shapiro


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