Talk:Chambers Dictionary

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I thought I might remove obumbrate from the list of piquancies - it seems rather ordinary. John Wheater 09:10, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

The on-line dictionary doesn't have much of a sense of humour; I copied the Chambers definition of "éclair" straight from that into the body text: "a long cake of choux pastry with a cream filling and chocolate or coffee icing". And it, apparently, is drawn from the 21st Century Dictionary. So what of the claim that the Johnson-esque definitions were re-instated? Or are they still in the Chambers Dictionary, of which the C21 is a sort of straight version? Wooster (talk) 14:04, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

The first edition was 1786. MDCCLXXXVI. In four volumes.

[edit] yoof

yoof n (esp of magazines, TV or radio programmes, etc) relating to, specifically aimed at, pandering to, or dealing with topics (thought to be) of interest to modern youth

Can someone check this is a noun definition in the paper copy? It looks like the definition of an adjective to me. The Wednesday Island 12:56, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Quite right - the noun format is just "young person"; the extract is listed as an adj. Changing it. Carre 07:19, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] copyright

The number of definitions given as examples looks a bit excessive to me. -86.142.109.209 23:15, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] -ize spelling

Why has Chambers changed from the -is- spellings to -iz- spellings? I have an old 20th century Chambers from 1983 which uses the -is- spellings, but the new versions (especially the online version) uses the -iz- spellings. Why have they changed? --203.220.170.184 (talk) 14:17, 7 June 2008 (UTC)