Encarta ® World English Dictionary

“Hype … 1.PUBLICITY greatly exaggerated publicity intended to excite public interest in something such as a film or theatrical production …” or a dictionary? Perhaps that is rather unfair, but this new dictionary was launched with considerable hoo‐hah (“a loud noisy fuss, controversy, or disturbance …”). The dictionary war is well and truly resumed with a frontal assault by a very heavyweight contender, or, in the more military metaphor, a dreadnought (“… a heavily armed battleship whose main guns are all of the same calibre …”). In their commercial and lexicographic fields the rival navies of Microsoft/ Bloomsbury and Oxford...