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    Webster\u27s Third Book of Records

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    The Guinness Book of Records has cataloged the world\u27s extremes for nearly 50 years. First appearing in Britain in 1955 and the US in 1956, this book has listed the highest, the lowest, the hottest, the coldest, the longest, the smallest and so on, from a wide range of natural phenomena and human endeavors

    What\u27s Inluded in the Exclusion

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    Menorah Review (No. 66, Winter/Spring, 2007)

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    A Collection by MR\u27s Poet Laureate -- Examining Historiography -- Revisiting Jewish Radicalism -- The World of Rabbi Nathan -- Why a Dictionary of Antisemitis

    Tolerance: Should We Approve Of It, Put Up With It, Or Tolerate It?

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    Instructions to authors wishing to contribute to Word Ways

    What\u27s the Good Word?

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    What is an acceptable word? has been the topic of a number of Word Ways articles. Answers range from a Pocket Dictionary main entry (for certain problems) to anything remotely wordlike (see The Ultimate Adventure elsewhere in this issue). I think, however, that it makes more sense to change the question to what is acceptability? noting that (1) words vary in acceptability, (2) the unacceptability line will be drawn at different points in the continuum by different people, or for different problems, and (3) a word\u27s acceptability has at least two dimensions, centrality and reliability, which depend strongly on its source. Clearly defined scales of acceptability will not resolve the question, since people will disagree on the importance of this factor or that, but they should at least clarify discussions of the problem

    A Pale Gold Raven and Other Poems

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    Poe\u27s The Raven\u27 and Other Poems was a collection of some of the best verse of his career. This collection of my own verse is definitely not of the same quality, but the logological constraints followed should be of interest to readers

    v. 47, no. 8, October 3, 1980

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