Title: A very impressive dictionary
Product review: I do agree with Stuart regarding the CD-ROM (although I've not seen the MS-DOS version) in that the definitions are abridged (vis-a-vis the book) and the search engine is nothing to write home about.Apropos the book, the pros far outweighs the cons. I'm not a lexicographer but amongst the many dictionaries that I've come across, this one is the most exhaustive and definitive in terms of explaining the words, and it's etymology.But I think the book would have fared better had it included examples of common usages of the word in the context of current spoken and written english.Coming back to the CD-ROM, the clincher is the inclusion of recorded pronunciation of most of the words (reportedly some 120,000 of them) which helps in setting to rest most debates on how a word is to be pronounced !All in all, if you want just one dictionary for your library, this is the one to have.
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