Random House Webster's Dictionary of American English
Language: English
Published by Random House USA Inc, 1998
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- Title
- Random House Webster's Dictionary of American English
- Author
- Gerard M Dalgish
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Fair
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0679780076
- ISBN 13
- 9780679780076
Random House Webster's Dictionary of American English is specially written for beginning learners of modern American English. From apple pie to zilch it captures the flavor, idiom, style and substance of American English.
The dictionary features:
Over 50,000 words and phrases
New-words section
An essay comparing British and American pronunciation
Two pronunciation systems -- standard American dictionary symbols and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols
"How to use this dictionary to learn American English," a valuable learning aid translated into Japanese, Chinese and Spanish
Tens of thousands of lively example phrases and sentences
Main entries for hundreds of common English roots, each with a list of English words derived from the root
Easy-to-understand bracketed grammar codes
Full-page contextual illustrations
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From the Back Cover
--Tom McArthur, Editor of English Today
Cambridge, England
"A welcome and much needed aid for teaching new students of American English."
--Clifford Hill, Professor of Language and Education
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York
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