Editing Webster's Dictionary (section)

=== ''Webster's New International Dictionary'' 1909 ===
[[File:WebstersDictionaryAdvertisement1910.jpg|thumb|Advertisement for the New International Dictionary from the October 8, 1910, issue of ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]'']]
The Merriam Company issued a complete revision in 1909, ''Webster's New International Dictionary'', edited by [[William Torrey Harris]] and [[F. Sturges Allen]]. Vastly expanded, it covered more than 400,000 entries, and double the number of illustrations. A new format feature, the ''divided page'', was designed to save space by including a section of ''words below the line'' at the bottom of each page: six columns of very fine print, devoted to such items as rarely used, obsolete, and foreign words, abbreviations, and variant spellings. Notable improvement was made in the treatment and number of ''[[discriminated synonyms]]'', comparisons of subtle shades of meaning. Also added was a twenty-page chart comparing the Webster's pronunciations with those offered by six other major dictionaries.