Webster's Family Encyclopedia

[Tom Zurinskas]

So strange.  So a "Webster" dictionary or encyclopedia could have non-webster-like spelling, i.e., UK spelling.  That certainly would not be right even if legal.



Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:21:52 -0400
> From: medievalist at W-STS.COM
> Subject: Re: Webster's Family Encyclopedia
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> Poster: Amy West
> Subject: Re: Webster's Family Encyclopedia
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> No.
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> The name Webster's is *not* trademarked. *Anyone* can put the name
> Webster's on a dictionary. It is due to circumstances of the timing
> of the dictionary and copyright/trademark law.
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> See below:
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> http://www.merriam-webster.com/info/webster.htm
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> ---Amy West
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>>Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:11:29 +0000
>>From: Tom Zurinskas
>>Subject: Webster's Family Encyclopedia
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>>I have a 1992 edition of "Webster's Family Encyclopedia". It's a
>>6x9 paperback done in 12 volumes, each 3/4 inch thick. It was
>>originally published in 1981 by Lawrence Urdang Associates Ltd. of
>>Aylesbury (which is in UK). Republished in 1992 by Ottenheimer
>>Publishers, Inc.
>>
>>A disclaimer reads "This book is not published by the original
>>publishers of Webster's Dictionary or by their successors." So what
>>makes this a Websters? Apparently the spelling.
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