{"id":15185,"date":"2009-07-12T21:51:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T03:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=15185"},"modified":"2009-07-12T21:51:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T03:51:42","slug":"four-hundred-dollars-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/12\/four-hundred-dollars-huh.html","title":{"rendered":"Four hundred dollars, huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Oxford English Thesaurus? More properly, The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u00b7 The largest thesaurus resource in the world, covering more than 920,000 words and meanings based on the Oxford English Dictionary<\/span>
\u00b7 The very first historical thesaurus to be compiled for any of the world’s languages from medieval times through the present
\u00b7 Synonyms listed with dates of first recorded use in English, in chronological order, with earliest synonyms first
\u00b7 For obsolete words, the Thesaurus also includes last recorded use of word
\u00b7 Uses a thematic system of classification
\u00b7 Comprehensive index enables complete cross-referencing of nearly one million words and meanings
\u00b7 Contains a comprehensive sense inventory of Old English
\u00b7 Includes a free fold-out color chart which shows the top levels of the classification structure
\u00b7 Made up of two volumes: The main text, comprising numbers sections for semantic categories, and the index, comprising a full A-Z look up of nearly one million lexical items<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sounds keen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, published by Oxford University Press, is the culmination of 44 years of painstaking work by scholars at the University of Glasgow.<\/p>\n

It not only groups words with similar meanings but does so in chronological order according to their history – with the oldest first and most recent last. According to its publisher, it’s the largest thesaurus in the world and the first historical thesaurus in any language.<\/p>\n

With 800,000 meanings, 600,000 words and more than 230,000 categories and sub categories, it’s twice as big as Roget’s version.<\/p>\n

And if that doesn’t have him turning in his grave, it also contains almost every word in English from Old English to the present day, or 2003 to be precise – the cut-off date for the new dictionary.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I’d love to have that on the shelf … or on the nightstand …<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

(via Randy)<\/p>\n

<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Oxford English Thesaurus? More properly, The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. \u00b7 The largest thesaurus resource in the world, covering more than 920,000 words and meanings based on the Oxford English Dictionary \u00b7 The very first historical thesaurus to be compiled for any of the world’s languages from medieval times through the … Continue reading “Four hundred dollars, huh?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7744,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/08\/23\/word_3.html","url_meta":{"origin":15185,"position":0},"title":"Word","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 23-Aug-05 10:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"When an Arab-American group discovered that Roget's online thesaurus included, as a synonym for \"Arab,\" various terms such as \"beggar and \"bum,\" they contemplated how the Imperialist past had led...","rel":"","context":"In "ZT & PC"","block_context":{"text":"ZT & PC","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/zt-pc"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1019,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/24\/mellow_yellow.html","url_meta":{"origin":15185,"position":1},"title":"Mellow Yellow","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 24-Oct-01 5:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The cottonwoods in the backyard are all bright yellow in their foliage. 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