Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary [antikvár]

PREFACE This dictionary is based on the Funk Wagnalls Standard® Desk Dictionary and other dictionaries in the Funk Wagnalls Standard dictionary series, reference works familiar to and respected by generations of readers. Included in the more than 82,000 entries in this completely re-edited and reset version are himdreds of new words and new meanings of old words. The general vocabularly words, which make up the major part of this dictionary, are grouped together in the main A-Z section. For the convenience of the dictionary user, geographical information has been gathered together in another section. Here are the names, including syllable division and pronunciation, and populations of the states of the United States, its capital cities and cities with populations over 100,000, countries of the world, world capitals and world cities, and Canadian provinces and their capitals. This geographic section also includes the names, syllable divisions, and pronunciations of major geographic features of the world, such as rivers, lakes, mountains, islands, seas. A comprehensive and completely revised abbreviation and acronym section follows the geographic section. An added feature is the Basic Style Manual, a guide to word usage, capitaHzation, spelling, punctuation, confusing words, grammar, and forms of busmess correspondence. A section of weights and measures, including conversion factors that allow the interchanging of metric and customary U.S. units, supplements the vocabulary and grammar information offered. Readers will be better able to use this dictionary if they first read the Guide to the Dictionary which follows this preface. Staff: Supervisory editors, Patrick Barrett and Carol Cohen. Chief revising editor, Norman Hoss; associate revising editors, Martin Apter, M3rrna Breskin, Robert Haycraft, Geoffrey Horn, Ruth Koenigsberg, Margaret Miner, and Eugene Shew-maker. Copyediting and proofreading: chief copyeditor, Janet Field (also principal editorial reader), William Betts, James Daly, Nancy Nightingale, John Samoy-lenko, Doris Sullivan, and Selma Yampolsky. Editorial assistants, Dennis Chin and Helen Moore.