The pronunciation is the more common one in the USA, and is the first-listed variant in various American dictionaries ( e. g., Merriam-Webster Collegiate, American Heritage ).

" His name became synonymous with " dictionary ," especially the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language.

The American Heritage Dictionary and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary both define rock and roll as synonymous with rock music.

Philip Babcock Gove, an editor at Merriam-Webster who became editor-in-chief of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, wrote a letter to the journal American Speech, fifteen years after the error was caught, in which he explained why " dord " was included in that dictionary.

In 2008 the word soju entered the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Merriam-Webster dates the word's appearance in the American English lexicon at 1978.

The American Heritage Publishing Co., highly critical of Webster's Third, failed in an attempt to buy out Merriam-Webster and determined to create its own dictionary, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.

Other medium-sized dictionaries have since entered the market, including the New Oxford American and the Encarta Webster's, while Merriam-Webster has not attempted to compete by issuing a similar edition.

Although heterosexism is defined in the online editions of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language and the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary as anti-gay discrimination and / or prejudice " by heterosexual people " and " by heterosexuals ", people of any sexual orientation can hold such attitudes and bias.

Merriam-Webster, which was originally the G. & C. Merriam Company of Springfield, Massachusetts, is an American company that publishes reference books, especially dictionaries that are descendants of Noah Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language ( 1828 ).

Today, according to American English dictionary Merriam-Webster, a cookie is a " small flat or slightly raised cake ".

* Merriam-Webster, an American publisher of dictionaries etc.

McHenry transferred in 1975 to G. & C. Merriam Co. ( later renamed Merriam-Webster Inc .) where he edited Webster's American Military Biographies, Famous American Women, Liberty's Women, and Webster's New Biographical Dictionary.

Thus, older writings, as well as popular and sometimes scientific writings ( including the American Heritage, Merriam-Webster, and New Shorter Oxford dictionaries ), still often call them fer-de-lance.

However, Merriam-Webster write: American commentators seem to object to the adverb and recommend the adjective.

Most online dictionaries list a pejorative meaning as the primary definition before a neutral one, though Merriam-Webster lists the neutral one first.

Most dictionaries don't recognize this distinction, however, including Merriam-Webster and Webster's New World College Dictionary.

Since the late 19th century, dictionaries bearing the name Webster's have been published by companies other than Merriam-Webster.

This etymology is often cited in modern dictionaries ( such as the Collins English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster OnLine ).

Today it publishes the Random House Dictionary of the English Language and Random House Webster's College dictionaries, probably the main competitors for Merriam-Webster reference titles.

Many dictionaries, including Merriam-Webster, and Oxford, now include definitions in their publications defining it as such.

Merriam-Webster has also published dictionaries of synonyms, English usage, geography ( Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary ), biography, proper names, medical terms, sports terms, slang, Spanish – English, and numerous others.

Hence, pumpernickel is described as the " devil's fart ," a definition accepted by the Stopes International Language Database, the publisher Random House, and by some English language dictionaries, including the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.

Although the title refers to Noah Webster, the work is unrelated to the series of Webster's dictionaries published by the Merriam-Webster Company, which indeed are descended directly from Noah Webster's original publications.

Dictionaries are not always consistent in this, particularly when the secondary stress would come after the primary – for instance the foil of counterfoil is transcribed with secondary stress in Merriam-Webster dictionaries but not in the OED, although both of them assign secondary stress to the counter of counterintelligence.

* In Merriam-Webster dictionaries if a word is divided at the end of the line, and the division point happens to be a hyphen, it is replaced with a double hyphen to graphically indicate that the divided word is normally hyphenated, for example crosscountry.

Inspired by the recent addition of spoken word audio clips to the Merriam-Webster and Microsoft Encarta online dictionaries demonstrating the correct pronunciation of each word, these artists used the samples to create artificial vocals that " sang " karaoke.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary reports the etymology as from " the idea that the first month of marriage is the sweetest " ( 1546 ).

The Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary says that English got it from French and that its first known appearance in English writing was in 1670.

On August 14, 2012, the word Life Coach was listed for the first time in the mainstream Merriam-Webster ’ s Collegiate Dictionary.

According to Merriam-Webster, the first use of the term " snail mail " was in 1983.

Consensus is defined by Merriam-Webster as, first, general agreement, and second, group solidarity of belief or sentiment.

While the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary notes first use of the term heterosexism as having occurred some time in 1972, the first published use was in 1971 by gay rights activist, Craig Rodwell.

In 1996, Merriam-Webster launched its first website, which provided free access to an online dictionary and thesaurus.

This 45-letter word, referred to as P45, first appeared in the 1939 supplement to the Merriam-Webster New International Dictionary, Second Edition.

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary notes that the first known use of trickle-down as an adjective meaning " relating to or working on the principle of trickle-down theory " was in 1944, while the first known use of trickle-down theory was in 1954.

Merriam-Webster states that the word is of Middle English origin, and the first recorded use was in the 14th century.

According to Merriam-Webster the word was first used in 1928.

but film noirs is listed in the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary in first order of preference.

" ' Fastback ' was first recognized as a definition by Merriam-Webster in 1954, many years before the term ' hatchback ' was popularized and entered the dictionary in 1970.

" ( cited from Oxford English Dictionary ( OED )); and furthermore, Merriam-Webster state that the first known use of the term was prior to the 12th century.

Though the practice of externship dates back to the medieval Bimaristan hospitals, the term externship has a first known use date of 1945 in the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary records the first application of the name Chicken Little to ' one who warns of or predicts calamity, especially without justification ’ as dating from 1895, although idiomatic use of the name significantly predates that attestation.