British English is the variety emphasized throughout the LIED, although there is some attention to American English and to other national varieties. This dictionary is produced by the Longman Group UK and is currendy available only from the United Kingdom. The integration of different reference works and additional material such as sound recordings, pictures, and even video all on a single CD shows the exciting promise of the application of multimedia computer technology to lexicography and language learning. It may be the case that I as someone relatively new to multimedia was overly impressed by the breadth of information in the LIED and the innovative ways it is presented, but the high quality of the product is undeniable. And even though the LIED is apparendy the first multimedia learner's dictionary of English, its quality is more than what one would expect from a pioneering effort. The fact that the LIED combines these various references into one makes it a new kind of reference work, but from the ways the LIED makes use of multimedia computer technology I cannot help but call it a revolutionary product for learners of English. It includes most of the information found in several Longman reference works for learners of English, namely the Longman Dictionary ofEnglish Language and Culture, Summers 1992 (LDELC), the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, Wells 1990 (LPD), the Longman English Grammar, Alexander 1988 (LEG), and the Longman Dictionary of Common Errors, Heaton and Turton 1987 (LDCE). The LIED is a dictionary of English for users whose native language is not English. REVIEWS Longman Interactive English Dictionary (on CD-ROM). In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

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