He has written scholarly articles on such matters as the principles for the inclusion of new words in college dictionaries and the expression "Not!"

Then I looked in the college dictionary.

A traveler cannot schlep around the college dictionary that contains that sort of word.

Thus, a dictionary with approximately 80,000 headwords, the size of American college dictionaries, contains more than 170,000 entries.

But the core of the business is the familiar college dictionary, a general book of about 150,000 to 200,000 entries written for college-level comprehension.

Were all these factors taken into consideration in normal pricing procedures in the industry, a college dictionary ought to retail for about $50 a copy.

He put it in the 1996 Random House Webster's College Dictionary.

Random House has also updated its Webster's College Dictionary for publication this summer.

There are no plans, however, to turn the college dictionary into a digital hyperlinked document, said Craig Bartholomew, general manager of Microsoft's learning business unit.

As many as 300 terms enter the Random House Webster's College Dictionary each year, of which some 200 might come from technology, she says.