Speak and write correctly and confidently with the first All-American English learner"s dictionary Random House Webster"s Dictionary of American English is specially written for beginning learners of modern American English. From apple pie to zilch it captures the flavor, idiom, style and substance of American English. The dictionary features: Over 50,000 words and phrases New-words section An essay comparing British and American pronunciation Two pronunciation systems -- standard American dictionary symbols and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols "How to use this dictionary to learn American English," a valuable learning aid translated into Japanese, Chinese and Spanish Tens of thousands of lively example phrases and sentences Main entries for hundreds of common English roots, each with a list of English words derived from the root Easy-to-understand bracketed grammar codes Full-page contextual illustrations