Standard Desk Dictionary - Funk and Wagnalls

Its more than 100,000 entries make the Standard Desk Dictionary the most comprehensive of the desk dictionaries. It is an up-to-date work designed for efficient use at home or in the office. It offers concise, clearly worded definitions, type that s easy on the eyes, a simple pronunciation sheme, a quick indication of proper hyphenation, usage notes, and thousands of carefully discriminated synonyms. Scattered throughout the text are dozens of lists, charts, and tables - as for U.S. presidents, foreign alphabets, special signs and symbols, military ranks, and weights and measures.Four handy appendixes complete the authoritative coverage: a list of common abbreviatiions biographical entries, with brief identifications, dates, and pronunciations of the family names geographical entries, with pronunciations and recent population figures and a secretarial handbook. The handbook is a special feature - a complete guide to grammar, spelling, the writing of letters, forms of adress, and the preparation of manuscript. Standard Desk Dictionary is the ideal source of data that busy people are likely to need at their fingertips. For the secretary or the executive, the student researcher or the teacher, and the rushed housewife writing a letter, it is a compact, authoritative storehouse of information about contemporary English.