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Main Title The American Heritage dictionary of the English language.
Publisher Houghton Mifflin,
Year Published 2006
OCLC Number 72732691
ISBN 0395825172; 9780395825174; 0618082301; 9780618082308; 0618701729; 9780618701728; 0618701737; 9780618701735
Subjects English language--Dictionaries ; Engels ; Engels--gtt
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Holdings
Library Call Number Additional Info Location Last
Modified
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Status
EJAR  PE1628.A623 2006 Region 3 Library/Philadelphia, PA 11/10/2008
EJBR CORE PE1628.A623 2006 Headquarters Library/Washington,DC 08/15/2008
EJDR  PE1628.A623 2006 Env Science Center Library/Ft Meade,MD 01/14/2009
EKAR REF PE1628.A623 2006 Region 4 Library/Atlanta,GA 06/29/2021
ELAR REF PE1628.A623 2006 Region 5 Library/Chicago,IL 09/19/2008
ELBR REF PE1628.A623 2006 AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 06/22/2009
EMAR  PE1628.A623 2006 Region 6 Library/Dallas,TX 03/31/2009
ENAR REF PE1628.A623 2006 Region 7 Library, Kansas City, KS 09/12/2008
ESAR  PE1628.A623 2006 Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA 10/15/2008
Edition 4th ed. [updated].
Collation xxxvii, 2074 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Notes
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Contents Notes
Regional patterns of American speech / Lee Pederson -- Variation and change in our living language / John R. Rickford -- Usage in The American heritage dictionary / Geoffrey Nunberg -- Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans / Calvert Watkins -- Proto-Semitic language and culture / John Huehnergard. Contains entries for over 10,000 new words reflecting the explosion of computer and Internet technology as well as changes in popular culture and slang.