The American Heritage Abbreviations Dictionary - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0618621237 ISBN 13: 9780618621231

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005

Synopsis

An updated edition of current acronyms and abbreviations includes some 19,000 entries that encompass a wide range of blends, clippings, foreign words, initialisms, numericals, and truncations.

About this title

About the Author:

The Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries and of other reference titles published by Houghton Mifflin Company are trained lexicographers with a varied array of interests and expertise. Most of the editors hold graduate degrees and have studied at least one foreign language. Several have degrees in linguistics or in the history of the English language. Others have degrees in science or sometimes other disciplines. All the editors familiarize themselves with the vocabulary in specific subject areas, collect materials on new developments and usage, and work in association with consultants to ensure that the content of our publications is as accurate and as up-to-date as possible.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0618621237
• ISBN 13: 9780618621231
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 294
• Editor: American Heritage Diction