Encyclopædia Britannica it is scarcely used, and reviewers have recommended that it be dropped from the encyclopaedia. The also has color transparencies of human anatomy and several appendices listing the staff members, advisors, and contributors to all three parts of the Britannica. Taken together, the and comprise roughly 40 million words and 24,000 images. The two-volume index has 2,350 pages, listing the 228,274 topics covered in the "Britannica", together with 474,675 subentries under those topics. The "Britannica" generally prefers British spelling over American; for example, it uses "colour" (not "color"), "centre" (not "center"), and "encyclopaedia" (not "encyclopedia"). However, there are exceptions to
Chinese encyclopedia Britannica". Among major online Chinese encyclopedias, for Standard Chinese, the two largest both began in 2005, the Baike.com Encyclopedia and the Baidu Encyclopedia. There is the Chinese Wikipedia (2002–present), and for varieties of Chinese, there are Cantonese, Mindong, Minnan, Wu, and Gan Wikipedias, as well as the Classical Chinese Wikipedia. Lastly, there are modern English-language encyclopedias of China. For example, the 1991 2nd edition of the "Cambridge Encyclopedia of China", the 2009 "Brill's Encyclopedia of China", and the 5-volume 2009 "Berkshire Encyclopedia of China". Chinese encyclopedia Chinese encyclopedias comprise both Chinese-language encyclopedias and foreign-language ones about China or Chinese topics.