[lit-ideas] Re: My First Thesaurus
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:41:57 -0800
Synonym isn't a synonym for thesaurus. Athough a thesaurus is often used to
find synonyms,
that's not the purpose of a thesaurus.
yrs,
andreas
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Subject: [lit-ideas] My First Thesaurus
>
>
> In a message dated 1/25/2005 2:06:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> I cannot think of another word for 'thesaurus'
> Strange that such an authoritative volume would suddenly fall silent
> with respect to itself.
> How about "Synonym Finder" --as in _The Rodale Synonym Finder_?
> And how about synonyms for "synonym"?
>
>
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>
> Right. Actually, the query about 'thesaurus', I got from The Reader's Digest
> -- and I had seen the 'synonym' query in a Notes and Queries issue of the
> Guardian. The OED provides a synonym for 'thesaurus', the Scots expression,
> 'thesaury':
>
>
> 1639 SPOTTISWOOD Hist. Ch. Scot. VII. (1677) 517
>
> His Uncle..was made Deputy in the Office of Thesaury.
>
> But perhaps this is a different (Scots) legal use, since the other cites do
> not seem to refer to books, at all.
>
> 1688 Addr. Sc. Privy C. in Lond. Gaz. No. 2388/2
>
> They..have got Pay for the Month of October instant out of Your Majesties
> Thesaury.
>
> 1708 [see THESAURER].
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> JL
>
>
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