Title
Encarta Webster’s College Dictionary
Coverage
New York
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Date
2005
Subject
2d ed.
Description
More than a century after George W. Ogilvie began his onslaught against Merriam, his successors at Webster’s New World—the lineage back to Ogilvie is direct—remained the most formidable competition for the newly renamed Merriam-Webster. American publishers had come to believe that a successful American dictionary must (1) use Webster’s in the title, (2) likewise have College or Collegiate in the title, and (3) sport a bright red cover. What you see here is only a sampling. What do you think? Do you suppose that there was no likelihood of confusion among the American book-buying public?