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Webster's name on any new dictionary. That name is not trade-markable.

Well, do you think that you put more money and expertise into your dictionary and that's the reason that it's so much better?

No. I just think that it's a much better dictionary.

Why?

In the first place, the American language has changed more in the last ten years than it changed in the previous hundred. It's just like everything else. The pace of life has quickened so. Many different sciences have been developed. The whole world of outer-space and rocketry has evolved. Think of the number of words called into play with all of these new sciences, metals, and processes. The entire outer-space program calls for brand new words, words that weren't in existence fifteen years ago. So a new dictionary has to include all of this, which is almost a dictionary in itself.

At the same time, there are thousands of words that have been carried in all unabridged dictionaries since time immemorial that haven't been used since Shakespeare's day. They are virtually worthless words today, and we were ruthless about eliminating them. Words that were in the