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In 1852 Peter Mark Roget eclipsed a rich tradition of topically based dictionaries with the publication of his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas. Based on intuition as much as on specific linguistic principles Roget'sbook has been a bestseller ever since and is one of the most widely-used reference works ever published. In this book Werner Hullen gives the first history of its genesis and publication, and investigates the

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Author
Werner Hüllen
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Published
2004
Language
EN
ISBN
9780199281992
Category
language
Subjects
Reference, Language Learning, Literary Fiction
Updated
2026-03-25

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