David B. Guralnick Ordre des livres

Offers hundreds of new words and meanings, including many unique to American English, with thousands of examples of current usage.

Includes the commonly used words that make up the basic vocabulary of English, as well as some specialized terms, abbreviations, and foreign words and phrases.

It's a great achievement in American lexicography, providing a generous, comperehensive, and suprisingly durable listing of current American language. The familiarly readable clear type and single alphabetical listing that includes biographical, geographical, proper name, and abbreviation entries accompanies a sober and solidly thorough listing of virtually every word you would want to know in American English. It includes newer contributions from science, technology, slang, and does a brilliant job in giving exciting, yet accurate entymologies and definitions with all their shades of meaning.