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By JAMES J. KILPATRICK
Universal Press
With the Yuletide approaching, it seems and appropriate time to recommend a few titles for a writer’s Christmas morning. Hundred of useful and entertaining books are waiting on a bookseller’s shelves.
A good desk dictionary comes first. The 10th edition of the Merriam-Webster collegiate Dictionary appeared in the spring. I have nowbeen using it daily for about six months, and have found it generally first-rate. Some of its usage notes are mushy (for example, the usage note on “can”), but overall it’s a good book.
To his credit, Webester’s editor in chief. Frederick C. Mish, disdained the cutesy-wutesy entries that so annoyed critics of the Random House College Dictionary of 1991. You may recall that Random House recognized such unrecognizable abominations as “waitron” (a person of either sex who waits on tables) and “womyn” (an alternative spelling of "women”).
Has anyone ever seen “waitron” in print? Does any respectable publication use “womyn” in place of “women"? I cannot believe it. Random House did this just to annoy me and to get its name in the papers.
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