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American Heritage Dictionary Debuts With Broad Panel Input
A panel of 104 writers professors and public figures weighed 800 words and phrases for The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language in a plan that aims to redefine dictionary format with 155000 entries 4000 illustrations and a language history. The advisory group included Marianne Moore David Ogilvy Jacques Barzun Russell Baker and others as the publishers prepared the new reference set for release in New York.
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