[1] After Wentworth's death in 1965,[2] Flexner wrote a supplemented edition which was published in 1967.
[2] HarperCollins acquired Thomas Crowell Company in 1980[4] and took over publishing the dictionary.
After Flexner passed 1990,[5] Barbara Ann Kipfer and Robert L. Chapman took over the editing.
[7] English professor[8] Albert H. Marckwardt called the first edition a "highly useful work".
[9] Linguistics professor Madeleine Mathiot criticized the exclusion of "fad" terms, which were omitted because the authors required two usages of a term separated by at least five years for it to be included.