Editing Macquarie Dictionary (section)

=== First Edition ===
The original version of the ''Macquarie Dictionary'' was based on [[Hamlyn (publisher)|Hamlyn]]'s ''Encyclopedic World Dictionary'' of 1971, which in turn was based on [[Random House]]'s ''[[American College Dictionary]]'' of 1947,<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=j4nFBQAAQBAJ|publisher = Routledge|date = 2010-03-30|isbn = 9781136998720|first1 = Malcolm|last1 = Coulthard|first2 = Alison|last2 = Johnson}}</ref> which was based on the 1927 ''[[Century Dictionary|New Century Dictionary]]'', which was based on ''[[The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language]]'', which itself was based on Noah Webster's ''[[American Dictionary of the English Language]]'' second edition of 1841.<ref name=":0" />

The first edition had an introduction by Australian historian [[Manning Clark]].

Since its first publication in 1981,<ref name=":0" /> its use has grown so that it has come to rival longer-established dictionaries from elsewhere in the English-speaking world as a standard authority on the English language within Australia.<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Handbook of World Englishes|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=PpeXINCnDbIC|publisher = John Wiley & Sons|date = 2009-02-17|isbn = 9781405188319|first1 = Braj|last1 = Kachru|first2 = Yamuna|last2 = Kachru|first3 = Cecil|last3 = Nelson}}</ref>