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Headwords

There is a contradiction between the Dutch language page giving more than 200 000 headwords to the Van Dale and this page giving 90 000. --Dominique Meeùs (talk) 04:58, 1 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia entry Van Dale had: "as of 2005 it lists definitions of approximately 90,000 headwords"
Wikipedia entry Dutch language has: "The main Dutch dictionary is the Van Dale groot woordenboek der Nederlandse taal, which contains some 268,826 headwords."
The given source in the entry Van Dale had: "In 2005 the 14th edition of Grote Van Dale was published in the revised spelling of 2005. The editors-in-chief are drs. den Boon and prof. dr. Geeraerts. This edition comprises over 268 000 lexical entries."

Maybe some entries don't include a definition, so that there are about 268 000 entries but only about 90 000 definitions. But in that case there should be some better clarification. -Darumeis (talk) 20:37, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Edition numbering

The edition numbering doesn't fit.

English wikipedia forgot the 1872 edition and/or mixed it up with the 1874 edition.
Foreign wikipedias forget the 1874 edition.

Possible solutions:

The 1864 edition by I. M. Calisch & N. S. Calisch could be no Van Dale (or "0th edition")
The 1872 and 1874 edition could be one edition (like the 1874 ed. just being a reprint)
The 1872 edition could have appeared in several parts in a longer time and the 1874 edition could be a completed single part edition. In this case the google digitalisation would be wrong or misleading and so would be foreign wikipedias.

-Darumeis (talk) 20:37, 20 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]