Current & Clear. Random House concedes that Webster’s Third contains more words (it has 450,000 of the roughly half-million in the English language).

In the first five weeks after its publication, the Random House Dictionary of the English Language (TIME, Sept. 30) sold more than 250,000 copies, began to appear on the bestseller lists, and is ...

Now appearing on bookstore shelves is a new dictionary, the Random House Webster’s College Dictionary, which is, Random House contends, notable for several reasons: It has far more entries than ...

NEW YORK — During the 44 years she has commuted to work on public transportation, Leonore Hauck has been exposed repeatedly to language that the dictionary calls “vulgar” or “slang.” ...