In 1806, Noah Webster published his first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language. In 1964, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. acquired Merriam-Webster, Inc., as a subsidiary. The company adopted its current name in 1982. The eleventh edition includes more than 225,000 definitions, and more than 165,000 entries of the text.
About Merriam-Webster in brief
In 1806, Noah Webster published his first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language. In 1807 Webster started two decades of intensive work to expand his publication into a fully comprehensive dictionary. In 1964, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. acquired Merriam-Webster, Inc., as a subsidiary. The company adopted its current name in 1982. The eleventh edition includes more than 225,000 definitions, and more than 165,000 entries of the text. This dictionary is preferred for general matters by many book and magazine publishers in the United States. The Chicago Manual of Style is followed by the influential The Chicago Style, which is listed as a source of spelling entries by many publishers. The G. & C.
MerriAm Company lost its right to use the name Merri am after a series of lawsuits placed that name in public domain. Its name was changed to \”Merriam Webster Inc. in 1983. Previous publications had used a subtitle as a subtitle for many years, and will be found on many older editions on the Internet. The name was used for many editions for many. years, but will be used on many. editions for a number of years on the internet after a. lawsuit was placed on the older editions. The first. edition of Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, published in 1983, contained 118,000 words, \”3000 more than any other English dictionary\”. With the edition of 1890, the dictionary was retitled Webster’s International.
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