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- Even today a modern encyclopaedia may still be called a dictionary, but no good dictionary has ever been called an encyclopaedia.
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Even today a modern encyclopaedia may still be called a dictionary, but no good dictionary has ever been called an encyclopaedia. The meaning of the word encyclopaedia has changed considerably during its long history.
britannica.com. The Encyclopædia Britannica ( Latin for "British Encyclopædia"), previously published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a popular encyclopædia which since 2011 is published as an online encyclopædia. It is written in British English.
Although encyclopaedias are a different type of reference work, some use the word dictionary in their names (e.g., biographical dictionaries). (Read H.L. Mencken’s 1926 Britannica essay on American English.) Basically, a dictionary lists a set of words with information about them.
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