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Synopsis
Here's something new and exciting from NTC, the leading publisher of books for students of English as a second language. Electronic dictionaries on CD-ROM make it easy to look up a word or phrase instantly and have access to thousands of typical American English example sentences. The student can store selected entries in his or her personal electronic notebook.Conduct faster, easier research with eDictionaries on CD-ROM
-- Open and search any number of dictionaries at once
-- Internet link provides updates and additional entries
-- Free on-line site for purchasing additional reference materials
-- Each eDictionary also includes two bonus dictionaries: NTC's Dictionary of Acronyms and Abbreviations and NTC's Dictionary of Proverbs and Cliches
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About the Author
Richard A. Spears, Ph.D., is a reference editor and former linguistics professor who has written more than 30 dictionaries, including NTC's American Idioms Dictionary (ISBN: 0-8442-0273-8) and NTC's American English Learner's Dictionary (ISBN: 0-8442-5859-8).
From Library Journal
Intended primarily for adult and high school-level students of English as a second language (ESL), this simplified dictionary provides spellings, pronunciations, and definitions for 22,000 basic words. It does an especially good job of explaining irregular forms, common compounds, and idiomatic phrases; subsumed under the head word "heart," for instance, are 16 such entries (e.g., "die of a broken heart"). Abundant illustrative sentences enhance definitional comprehension, showing how words and phrases are used in context. On the other hand, the book lacks syllabication, etymologies, synonymies, usage notes, and pictorial illustrations, and it generally omits recent coinages and slang unless well established, as in the computer sense of "mouse" and "boot." In addition, vulgarities and street terms concerning sex, drugs, and more are prudishly excluded. Most ESL dictionaries originate in the UK?the excellent Cambridge International Dictionary of English (Cambridge Univ., 1995) is typical?and cover the vocabulary of both major branches of English, British and American, which can be confusing to learners on this side of the Atlantic. The NTC dictionary, however, is strictly a U.S. production devoted solely to American English. As such, it is recommended for all libraries with a significant ESL clientele.?Ken Kister, author of "Kister's Best Encyclopedias," Tampa, FL
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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