unabridged

Starting in the quarterfinals, the bee’s word panel can use any of the more than half a million words in Webster’s Unabridged dictionary, plus some geographical names that aren’t even listed in that volume.

No one in the nearly century-long history of the bee has been able to memorize the more than 500,000 words in Webster’s Unabridged dictionary, any of which can be selected for inclusion by Scripps’ word panel of former bee champions, linguists and other experts.

“Rather,” he said, “the provisions fail to pass constitutional muster because of the magnitude of discretion afforded to city officials in denying an individual their constitutional right to keep and bear firearms,” and because the city failed to show that unabridged discretion is grounded in the nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation.

For the genuine article, try Naxos’ new, unabridged recording of “The Phantom of the Opera,” in which the sumptuous grotesqueries of Gaston Leroux’s oft-adapted 1910 novel are further empurpled by the rich sepulchral timbre of Bill Homewood’s voice, in a deliciously ghastly narration.

Voters would be winners by hearing unabridged arguments from both sides.