Webster was a damned Yankee. We don't admit his worthless dictionary in our homes, and eschew his vulgar misspellings.
"Webster was a damned Yankee. We don't admit his worthless dictionary in our homes, and eschew his vulgar misspellings."
Good for you. Since you don't like Merriam-Webster, here's several other dictionaries that say the exact same thing.
Cambridge Online Dictionary (dictionary.cambridge.org; it has connections to Cambridge University in the U.K.):
Definition
cannon (GUN) [Show phonetics]
noun [C] plural cannon or cannons
1 a large, powerful gun fixed to two or four wheels, which fires heavy stone or metal balls, and which was used in the past
Again, Dictionary.com (since you decided to ignore it while you spewed venom against Webster):
can·non ( P ) Pronunciation Key (knn)
n. pl. cannon or can·nons
American-Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (
http://www.bartleby.com/61/5/C0070500.html): SYLLABICATION: can·non
PRONUNCIATION: knn
NOUN: Inflected forms: pl. cannon or can·nons
Wordsmyth.net dictionary:
Pronunciation kae nEn
Inflected Forms cannon [or] cannons