Fans of David Crystal’s Encyclopedia of Language will be delighted to know
that Cambridge University Press has produced a second edition (£22.95,
ISBN 0 521 55050 5). He points out that science is “the main birthplace for new
words in a language”, adding that a comprehensive English dictionary would be
dominated by scientific terms.
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