Thanks for pointing out the differences! I have never used anything but Merriam, probably because I went to an US university and as you pointed out, Merriam is US-based.
I will definitely have a look at the Concise OED, perhaps first in paper book form which I can lend from the library
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Originally Posted by BasilC
Maybe I was a bit rash when praising the Concise OED without ever having looked at Merriam Webster. But the various OED dictionaries have a great pedigree - the OED itself (gigantic, and of more use to linguistic academics than normal people), the Shorter OED (a scaled down OED), the Concise OED (the kind of largish dictionary that would be of use to ordinary people), and the Pocket OED, which, I suppose, distills the wisdom of the bigger dictionaries but doesn't got into enough detail in its entries for my liking.
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