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• #Stands above the rest synonym license

“Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus” gives figurative senses, but shuns the literal. Sidney I.,Landau, editor of the Doubleday thesaurus, several years ago published an analysis of lexicographic treatment of the commonest term for sexual intercourse, but his thesaurus cedes the territory to competitors. There is no “pogrom” or “ghetto” in Webster's list Doubleday has “ghetto” but no “pogrom.” The Original and the International have both. to say nothing of the Original and International), allegedly because it could find no exact synonyms. Merriam‐Webster's “Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus” boasts that it stands above the rest and offers “synonym lists that contain only exact synonyms.” It does not list “peace” (Doubleday does. “Roget” is also available to all, and some day the world will surely see a “Webster's Roget” or at least a “Roget's Webster.” Professor Laird, now emeritus at the University of Nevada, went on to edit “Webster's New World Thesaurus,” one of the many word books profiting from the fact that “Webster” belongs to anyone who wants it, be he Laird or commoner. ry” from the Latin “promptorium” (storehouse), and proclaimed: “For a new kind of book, a new kind of name!”

“Laird's Promptory” was an abecedarian synonymy named for its compiler, Charlton Laird. Crowell, and the original, international bickering between Longmans and Crowell over publication rights has given way to unabridged trans‐Atlantic amity and forbearance.īoth companies watch helplessly as others crowd the market, advertising latter‐day entries with verve’ and audacity, and arranging their works not only as Roget did but also alphabetically. “I have always preferred to ‘subject myself to the imputation of redundance,” he said, “rather than incur the reproach of insufficiency.” Eventually, by addition of an index, it became unnecessary for readers to master the sixfold way or pay it any heed at all.Ī collateral descendant-this one not “Original” but “International”-is published here by Thomas Y. Affections-and listed words in 1,000 subdivisions. Inspired by notions of scientific order and philosophic comprehensiveness, Roget imposed a six‐fold division on vocabulary-Abstract Relations, Space, Matter, Intellect, Volition and. As a contemporary thesaurus editor put it “When you have a dictionary you look up a word you want when you have a thesaurus you look up a word you don't want.” With a dictionary, one knows the word and seeks its meaning: with a thegaurus, one knows the meaning and seeks the word. Roget described his device as the opposite of a dictionary.

After retirement as Secretary of the Royal Society, he amplified an old word‐classification system he had earlier devised, and in 1852 it was published as a thesaurus. Roget., born in London, eased into lexicography by studying medicine, writing on science, and inventing a slide‐rule and pocket chessboard. It was Peter Mark Roget who created the thesaurus arrangement, and gave the species his name. None of this should induce the publisher of “Roget's International Thesaurus” to stop describing it as “most complete.” Nor should it prevent “The Original Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases” from continuing to seek its own margin of distinction as “the only Thesaurus that gives parts of speech in both text and index.” On its dust jacket the work hymns itself as “completely new,” a panegyric recalling the effusions of last, year's “Webster's, Collegiate Thesaurus.” That book published by Merriam‐Webster, called itself “the first totally new thesaurus in over 120 years,” as though its editor Maire Weir Kay had not acknowledged in the introduction that her staff “freely consulted existent thesaureses.” The latest of tote species, “The Doubleday Roget's Thesaurus in Dictionary Form,” was published yesterday.

#Stands above the rest synonym license

In the harsh soil of contemporary language blooms the verbiferous thesaurus, giving color to thought, fragrance to expression, shade to meaning and poetic license to copywriters.