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Volume 5 - October 1989

Contents

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Reviews

Lexicon

  • Render Unto Caesar

  • Pam Peters
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    17 October 2008, pp. 46-48

  • The obstetrical expression ‘caesarean section’ (also spelled with a capital C, with -e- instead of -ae- in the first syllable, and with -ian instead of -ean at the end) has always been associated with Julius Caesar. The tradition goes back to the first century AD, when Pliny explained that the name Caesar was coined on the fact that its most famous bearer had been born ‘a caeso matris ventro’ (out of his mother's cut belly).

Reviews

Post and Mail

  • Post & Mail

  • George Milne
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    17 October 2008, pp. 57-63
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    17 October 2008, pp. 57-62
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    17 October 2008, pp. 55-62
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  • Webster’s New World Dictionary

  • Edward Gates
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    17 October 2008, pp. 52-54

  • THE THIRD College Edition of Webster's New World Dictionary was published by Simon & Schuster in September 1988. The work contains 170,000 entries and 800 illustrations in 1600 pages. Recent college dictionaries have contained about 150,000 entries. The increase is due in part to the steady proliferation of the vocabulary and in part to competition among the four rivals. The others are American Heritage Dictionary, College Edition (Houghton Mifflin, published in 1982); Random House College Dictionary (1984), and Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (Merriam-Webster, 1983). By comparison, Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1828, contained 70,000 words. The college dictionary is one of a family of New World dictionaries that have sold more than 80 million copies since 1951.

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  • Post & Mail

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    17 October 2008, pp. 55-60
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