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The Longman Modern English Dictionary combines a dictionary and encyclopedia in a way that will be new to many readers. It represents the application to English lexicography of a tradition long established in Continental Europe. The reader can now find much information on the language and on many matters of general knowledge within a single volume and in a single alphabetical order. The result is a reference work fhat every home should have, for everyone in the family continuing his or her education beyond 16, whether in or out of school.
The book is authoritative and surprisingly comprehensive for its size. Its authority comes from the close association of the editor with the editorial staff of the well-known Petit Larousse, the book's French counterpart (of which half a million copies are sold annually). The encyclopedic comprehensiveness of Longman Modern English Dictionary can be inferred from the list of 57 subject labels given (in the section 'Guide for the Reader') at the beginning.
In preparing the text of the lexical entries, the editor has had four main features in mind:
1. Clarity of definition: "as nearly as possible the definitions are in the spoken voice, simply what one would say in answer to 'What does heuristic (or whatever) mean?'."
2. Many examples of usage and idiomatic expressions.
3. The proper representation of today's vocabulary: "Words that have gone out of use (have been) dropped or marked 'hist.' or 'old-fash.', and the words that have come into general use in the past 20 years (are) present."
4. "More scientific vocabulary than earlier English dictionaries have contained."
(Quotations taken from the preface.)
Owen Watson's work has been supported by the combined resources of Longman, a publisher of very many educational books, and Larousse, the principal publisher of reference works in France. It is the hope of all three parties that this new form, out of an old tradition in continental Europe, will become firmly established in the English speaking world. In the words of Professor Quirk's foreword:
"We are surely ready for a dictionary which breaks down old reference barriers and which at the same time adopts a refreshingly clear style of definition and description."
A first edition a! this work was published (!968) nude, the title 'Longmans English Larousse.
Owen Watson was born in 1922. He was educated at schools in Chichester and Canterbury, and at Cambridge University, where his studies were interrupted by war service. He was a scholar of Corpus Christi and took a first in Modern Languages in 1947. Thereafter he worked for Cambridge University Press as an educational publisher, eventually holding the post of Educational Secretary to the Syndics of the Press.
in 1959 he left to go to France, where he studied the methods of Larousse in their Paris editorial oflfices. At the same time he set up a pottery in louraine, making wood-fired stoneware for the table. He now lives permanently in France, in a small farmhouse in the valley of the Loire, where his pottery also stands. He has combined the professions of potter and lexicographer for the last 17 years. Vissza