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I have always reckoned the Chambers about the best of the single‐volume dictionaries, particularly for the breadth of vocabulary it includes. Quite a few years ago now it became the norm (not to mention a commercial imperative) for dictionary publishers to transfer their material into databases. Done initially to aid revision and production of their staple dictionaries, the publishers then found they had corpora of words and phrases which offered wider possibilities for ancillary titles and greater commercial exploitation of their base material. Given the breadth of coverage of the Chambers dictionary, their corpus (claimed in small print on the...
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