Creator
Jess Stein & Laurence Urdang, eds
Title
The Random House Dictionary of the English Language
Coverage
New York
Publisher
Random House
Date
1966
Description
Though it had been in the works for decades, the timing of The Random House Dictionary was propitious: the controversy surrounding Webster’s Third created a demand for a big dictionary with a more traditional balance between descriptivism and prescriptivism. Random House was marketed as the first dictionary to rely on computers for its editing and production. In the words of one commentator, “This could not fail to persuade the average reader in this technological age that the end product would be more accurate than something turned out by mere humans.”
Source
Ex coll. Karolyne & Bryan A. Garner. HHD no. 103