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  • Thesaurus Rex
    Posted in: Blog on November 7, 2009


    Thesaurus Rex

    Forty-four years in the making: the world’s first historical thesaurus.

    Ever wonder how people really talked in the 1800s, or 1500s, or earlier?

    You can stop building the time machine. Such questions are now easier to answer than ever before, with the publication—after 44 years of work—of the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. At almost 4,000 pages and about 800,000 meanings, this mind-boggling reference work is the biggest thesaurus ever and the world’s first historical…


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  • Thesaurus Rex
    Posted in: Blog on November 7, 2009


    Thesaurus Rex

    Forty-four years in the making: the world’s first historical thesaurus.

    Ever wonder how people really talked in the 1800s, or 1500s, or earlier?

    You can stop building the time machine. Such questions are now easier to answer than ever before, with the publication—after 44 years of work—of the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. At almost 4,000 pages and about 800,000 meanings, this mind-boggling reference work is the biggest thesaurus ever and the world’s first historical…


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