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| | However, it has many errors and biases: | | However, it has many errors and biases: |
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| − | *The date for [[eminent domain]] is incorrect: 1738<ref>http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eminent%20domain</ref>. The term was used as early as 1625<ref>[http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-4744152149731401/unrestricted/CONCLS.PDF American Jurispudence, 26, Second Edition, (Rochester, NY: Lawyers Corporation)]</ref>. | + | *The date for [[eminent domain]] is incorrect: 1738.<ref>http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eminent%20domain</ref> The term was used as early as 1625.<ref>[http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-4744152149731401/unrestricted/CONCLS.PDF American Jurispudence, 26, Second Edition, (Rochester, NY: Lawyers Corporation)]</ref> |
| | *The description of [[pogrom]] is not precisely correct. Merriam-Webster 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]]. | | *The description of [[pogrom]] is not precisely correct. Merriam-Webster 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]]. |
| | *The entry for Yiddish is too narrow in describing it as a [[language]] of Jewish residents and descendants of only central and eastern [[Europe]]. Yiddish is spoken worldwide. | | *The entry for Yiddish is too narrow in describing it as a [[language]] of Jewish residents and descendants of only central and eastern [[Europe]]. Yiddish is spoken worldwide. |
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| | *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"). |
| | For a criticism of the dictionary treatment of the "Common Era," see [[CE]]. | | For a criticism of the dictionary treatment of the "Common Era," see [[CE]]. |
| | + | *Merriam-Webster resists including new [[conservative]] terms, such as [[judicial activism]], which dates back to 1947 and has been repeatedly used by the U.S. Supreme Court since 1967, yet is still not included by Merriam-Webster.<ref>See [[Essay:Best New Conservative Words]].</ref> |
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