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<br> The careful editing and thoughtful layout of this work ensures its value as both a reference and a browsing resource. --Choice<br> Assembled by Margaret Miner and Hugh Rawson...it immediately proved an invaluable resource to the editors here and, when not being consulted in the line of duty, a great pleasure just to read around in. Now the dictionary is back in a revised and enlarged edition...as stimulating and engrossing a reference book as you are likely to find. --American Heritage<br> This compilation is one of that special breed of reference books that is both suitable for browsing and satisfactory for ready-reference use. --Booklist<br> Most helpfully provides context as well as long-overdue credit. --The Sunday San Diego Union-Tribune<br>

The careful editing and thoughtful layout of this work ensures its value as both a reference and a browsing resource. --Choice<br> Assembled by Margaret Miner and Hugh Rawson...it immediately proved an invaluable resource to the editors here and, when not being consulted in the line of duty, a great pleasure just to read around in. Now the dictionary is back in a revised and enlarged edition...as stimulating and engrossing a reference book as you are likely to find. --American Heritage<br> This compilation is one of that special breed of reference books that is both suitable for browsing and satisfactory for ready-reference use. --Booklist<br> Most helpfully provides context as well as long-overdue credit. --The Sunday San Diego Union-Tribune<br>

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Margaret Miner and Hugh Rawson are also the editors of The New International Dictionary of Quotations, A Dictionary of Quotations from the Bible, and A Dictionary of Quotations from Shakespeare. Hugh is also the author of Wicked Words, Devious Derivations, and Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk. They live in Roxbury, Connecticut.

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