The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) by Marshall P. Wilder (old books to read .txt) 📗
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Completed after nearly four years of time and almost a million and a half of dollars had been spent in its production. The work of over 380 Editors and Specialists. Has about 3,000 pages; more than 7,000 illustrations; contains over 450,000 living vocabulary terms—more than 125,000 of these being new; has dozens of important features not found in any other work; and is as far ahead of the old Standard as that was ahead of every other dictionary twenty years ago.
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ONE ALPHABETICAL ORDER throughout its entire vocabulary, an immense time-saving feature,—no divided pages, supplemental vocabularies, etc.
THE COMMON MEANING OF EVERY WORD is given in its first definition and the obsolete meaning last as it should be.
KEY-WORDS TO THE CONTENTS of every two facing pages greatly aid consultation.
TWO KEYS TO PRONUNCIATION are placed at the top of every page.
COMMON ERRORS OF SPEECH are systematically corrected.
A SYSTEMATIC METHOD OF COMPOUNDING words reduces compounding to a science.
RULES GOVERNING THE PLURALS of nouns and their formation are a great help.
GRAMMATICAL AND RHETORICAL CONSTRUCTION are aided by the special rules which the New Standard explains.
THE SYLLABIC DIVISION OF WORDS is shown by the simplest possible system.
SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS are given in such numbers as are nowhere else found.
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[1] Lippincott's Magazine.
[2] By permission of Life Publishing Company.
[3] Lippincott's Magazine.
[4] By permission of Life Publishing Company.
[5] Lippincott's Magazine.
[6] Copyright, 1905, by the Metropolitan Magazine Company.
[7] From "At the Sign of the Dollar," by Wallace Irwin. Copyright, 1905, by Fox, Duffield & Co.
[8] From "Nautical Lays of a Landsman," by Wallace Irwin. Copyright, 1904, by Dodd, Mead & Co.
[9] Lippincott's Magazine.
[10] By permission of Life Publishing Company.
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