Talk:The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Usage Panel
User:Rjensen revised the Usage Panel section in a way that added some useful information about the motivations behind the creation of the Usage Panel, but which didn't accurately describe the current panel. I moved some of that information to the "History" section, deleting the "elderly" gibe but retaining the reference to the panelists' linguistic conservatism. I also deleted the totally inaccurate claim that there are 1000 members on the panel, and while I was at it I corrected the "perscriptivism" typo in the citation. Hope that's OK. 206.208.105.129 (talk) 13:28, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Template
I expanded the template, Template:Dictionaries of English, and added it to this article, and a few others. Does this seem useful? should i add pub dates? is it correct in its categorizing?Mercurywoodrose (talk) 06:13, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Online availability
According to Wikipedia's article on Bartleby.com, Then this revision of the present AHD article, 17:29, 10 June 2009 made by IP 92.229.65.129, However, The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language is still available online, currently at and I have now added this link. Milkunderwood (talk) 03:19, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
 * In June 2009, licensed reference works from Columbia University Press and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt were removed from the site "due to financial and usage considerations".
 * "(Commented out ALL Bartleby links. Check yourself: Bartleby has REMOVED AHD from their online-service! A shame, but we have to face the facts.)"
 * http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/,
 * The online AHD is now at https://ahdictionary.com/, a site that for several months has been extremely slow, both to load and to yield search results. Eric talk 21:29, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
 * The online site still is very slow. But the iOS app, and presumably the app for Android, seem to work well. These apps don't seem to be mentioned in the article. Danchall (talk) 13:10, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Second and later editions
Sentence "The first edition's predecessor titled The American Heritage Dictionary, Second College Edition was ..." must surely mean "The first edition's successor ..." and doesn't need the word "titled." I will pause some days and check back for talk on this point. Kcor53 (talk) 13:27, 8 October 2015 (UTC)kcor53

I caught that too; since no one else has commented in the interim I will make that change. Wdowling (talk) 19:46, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Looking good. My "few days" turned into many months! Kcor53 (talk) 14:17, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Syllabication
Since syllabication is one of the most prominent features of this dictionary, I'd add information about it and a link to the rules followed for syllabication --Backinstadiums (talk) 20:47, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Liberalism
When did this dictionary turn liberal? (Please see footnote #1: Link) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lord Milner (talk • contribs) 19:04, 1 November 2021 (UTC)


 * Real dictionaries aren't liberal or conservative or any political position, because they have to cover every way that the words can be used. Arguments about how certain words originated are settled by hard evidence. If hard evidence is missing, then they have to say nobody knows. (If you have hard evidence about some word and it's not in the dictionary, call them up! Unfortunately, hearsay doesn't count.) TooManyFingers (talk) 16:46, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

"The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language" listed at Redirects for discussion
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