It isn't that 50,000 new, nonsensical words have been invented in the time since the last edition but that too many everyday words have been excluded from past editions. There is a natural tendency to be sceptical of the selling point is that some 50,000 new words have been added but scratching below the surface this makes sense. The major selling point and raison d'etre of this new an improved, Twelfth Edition of the Collins English Dictionary is that it is not only comprehensive – with almost 200,000 entry words – but that it is without doubt the most up-to-date dictionary on the market. This is a dictionary that announces its presence on the bookshelf.Ī friend of mine asked me, "How different can a dictionary be?" While look and feel is one thing, the more important differences are, of course, found in the contents. It is a great strategy by Collins to depart from the staidness of its competitors by adopting a modern look and feel in the age when everything is screen-based. The funky hard-back binding is of embossed black cloth with elegant and contemporary typography front and back, doing away with the pesky paper jackets that only ever wear and tear with time. It is no wonder that it is being touted as "the largest single-volume English dictionary in print". It arrived by courier in a shipping bag as large as a pillow. When the people at Collins said they were sending me a copy of their latest dictionary I never could have guessed what a whopping big book it would be. "I challenge you to find a better, more current dictionary of English in book format than this new Collins dictionary." Review Collins English Dictionary (12th Ed.) 2014
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