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Hardcover: 1871 pages
Publisher: Chambers Harrap; 11th edition edition (22 Aug 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0550102892
ISBN-13: 978-0550102898
Product Dimensions: 28.2 x 19.2 x 6 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)

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"Chambers is my dictionary of choice and always has been, because its practice is to detail a word's etymology with clarity, brevity and exactness, so that to look up a word in Chambers is to be able to unpack its meaning and also to marvel at its compactness... Chambers is an open door to words at their wittiest, most rooted, most reavealing and most powerful."(Ali Smith ) --Ali Smith

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Chambers is my dictionary of choice and always has been, because its practice is to detail a word's etymology with clarity, brevity and exactness, so that to look up a word in Chambers is to be able to unpack its meaning and also to marvel at its compactness... Chambers is an open door to words at their wittiest, most rooted, most reavealing and most powerful.

(Ali Smith )

It's good to see that the latest, 11th, edition of Chambers Dictionary has lost none of its wit.

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Hats off, incidentally, to the editor who archly defines 'comfort food' as 'mood-enhancing food that meets the approval of one's taste buds but not of one's doctor'.

(Daily Echo )

Chambers is the one I keep at my right hand

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5.0 out of 5 stars Needs must !, 29 Jan 2009

By	Brian Haydock (Cheltenham England) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

My crossword puzzle hobby requires that I have the latest Chambers dictionary.This is it, and there's not really anything more to say; Chambers is the best - and stands up best to years of daily use.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Chambers Dictionary 2008 edition, 13 Feb 2009

By	Shirley Curran (Gex, France) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The Chambers Dictionary
The Chambers Dictionary is the absolute authority for all crossword enthusiasts, both setters and solvers, and players of word games. It is important to have the latest edition, since Chambers are constantly updating the content. This eleventh edition contains over 1000 words that were not in the 2006 version, yet still retains rare literary and historical words.

The eleventh edition is graced by a foreword by Jeremy Paxman who comments, with his usual erudition, on the contents of the new version.

There is also a valuable short history of English and a useful section on the varieties of English. Here, differences are highlighted, like the pronunciation of the letter r in the final position of a word and before a consonant, in Canadian and American English.

This user-friendly text has sections on first names, phrases from foreign languages and a wealth of other useful information like the temperature conversion table and a list of planetary satellites.

Undoubtedly this is the leading dictionary today!

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4.0 out of 5 stars excellent content but unclear font, 1 Mar 2009

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The very best dictionary, especially for cryptic crosswords: includes every word you'd ever meet, plus many more. The latest edition has adopted a sans-serif font, which successfully crams more words into each line and enables greatly increased content for only a small increase in physical size. It is more difficult to read, but not so much as to worry anyone who used it moderately.

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