notbob wrote:
> On 2008-07-10, James Silverton > wrote:
>
>> That presupposes that the Am. Herit. dictionary is a *real*
>> dictionary!
>
> More so than Mirriam-Webster or Oxford, which is still too prudish to
> include words like shit or to stupid to include foreign phrases like
> jene sa quoi. AHD has for years.

I have lots of dictionaries, I love them. I got a new one for
Christmas one year, the very first word I looked up, a common
word, was not in there. AHD. Lots of pictures, though. It's
downstairs on a shelf somewhere.

nancy