For most of his life Roget, born 240 years ago today, was known for his contributions to medicine and science rather than literature. He was physician and Royal Society member who delved into topics ...

(New York Times)Sylvia Plath loved her thesaurus so much that she called herself "Roget's strumpet." She consulted it all the time while working on her first collection, "The Colossus," and it shows.

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LITTLE ROCK — The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus, by Joshua Kendall, Illustrated, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 297 pages, $25.95. Sylvia Plath loved her ...

Like the striations in a Mesozoic rock, the accumulated word hoard of English reflects successive upheavals: Roman invasion, seasonal Danish incursion, varieties of Anglo-Saxon terror, and finally ...

Thesaurus day, observed on Jan. 18, commemorates the birthday of Peter Roget, who first published his celebrated collection of synonyms in 1852. In observance of Thesaurus Day, here is a list of ...

18 January is Thesaurus Day, which celebrates the birthday of Peter Mark Roget, author of the first modern thesaurus. Roget was born on 18 January 1799 in London, and studied medicine at Edinburgh ...

In 1852 Dr Roget published his extremely useful Thesaurus. But in his life he was better known for his contributions to medicine For most of his life Roget, born 240 years ago today, was known for his ...