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RR 2005/302 Collins Spanish Dictionary plus Grammar (3rd edition) HarperCollins Glasgow 2004 Various pagings ISBN 0 00 712627 1 £11.99
Keywords Spanish language, Dictionaries
Review DOI 10.1108/09504120510613201
It is a mark of the popularity of this handy dictionary that it is now in its third edition, having originally been published in 1997. As with other Collins dictionaries, the title has been produced from the Collins Wordbanks database that enables the simultaneous updating of the range of dictionaries from this publisher. The present volume has been revised to include some 50,000 definitions that the editors assure us give "priority to everyday vocabulary and the language of current affairs, business, computing and tourism". While a concise dictionary such as this cannot be expected to compete with specialist computing and business dictionaries, nevertheless the reviewer was able...