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[http://www.m-w.com Merriam-Webster] is the leading [[dictionary]] in [[America]], and the descendant of [[Noah Webster]]'s dictionaries.
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'''Merriam-Webster''' is the leading [[dictionary]] in [[America]], and the descendant of [[Noah Webster]]'s dictionaries.
    
However, it has many errors and biases:
 
However, it has many errors and biases:
    
*The date for [[eminent domain]] is incorrect: 1883.  The term was used as early as 1125{{fact}}.
 
*The date for [[eminent domain]] is incorrect: 1883.  The term was used as early as 1125{{fact}}.
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*The date and description of [[pogrom]] is not precisely correct.  Merriam-Webster provides a date of 1903 and calls it an organized [[massacre]] of helpless people.  [[Pogrom]] is a [[Yiddish]] term used in [[Russian]] beginning in the late 1800s to describe an organized campaign of [[violence]] (not always a "massacre") against [[Jewish]] people in [[Russia]].
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*The date and description of [[pogrom]] is not precisely correct.  Merriam-Webster provides a date of 1903 and calls it an organized [[massacre]] of helpless people.  Pogrom is a [[Yiddish]] term used in [[Russian]] beginning in the late 1800s to describe an organized campaign of [[violence]] (not always a "massacre") against [[Jewish]] people in [[Russia]].
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*The entry for [[Yiddish]] is too narrow in describing it as only a [[language]] of Jewish residents and descendants of central and eastern [[Europe]].  Yiddish is spoken worldwide.
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*The entry for Yiddish is too narrow in describing it as only a [[language]] of Jewish residents and descendants of central and eastern [[Europe]].  Yiddish is spoken worldwide.
 
*[[Capital]] is poorly defined as accumulated goods, or the value of those goods, or net worth.  It is more commonly used to mean [[liquid assets]] such as [[cash]], [[stocks]], [[bonds]] that can be easily used to acquire [[goods]] and [[services]].
 
*[[Capital]] is poorly defined as accumulated goods, or the value of those goods, or net worth.  It is more commonly used to mean [[liquid assets]] such as [[cash]], [[stocks]], [[bonds]] that can be easily used to acquire [[goods]] and [[services]].
 
*The definition of [[group theory]] uses "group" to define itself.  Worse, the definition is so vague as to be useless ("finding all [[mathematics|mathematical]] groups and determining their properties").
 
*The definition of [[group theory]] uses "group" to define itself.  Worse, the definition is so vague as to be useless ("finding all [[mathematics|mathematical]] groups and determining their properties").
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