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January 18, 2012 – Thesaurus Day

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The word thesaurus looks like a dinosaur name,
doesn’t it?

If you can’t read it, the caption says, “Having great
vocabulary didn’t save the thesaurus
from extinction / eradication / extirpation.”

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nAnthesaurus is an enormous list of words, categorized into synonyms andnantonyms rather than listed alphabetically. In a published book, anthesaurus has an alphabetical list at the back that helps users findnthe word and other similar words. Nowadays many people use anThesaurus function on their computers and word processing programs.

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nWhynis today considered Thesaurus Day? Peter Mark Roget, who is famousnfor his thesaurus (compiled in 1805 and published in 1852, therebynthe first modern thesaurus), was born on this day in 1779.

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nUsena thesaurus today!

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nHerenare a few ideas for thesaurus projects. 

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nHerenand here are two examples of an online thesaurus. Which is organizednin the way you like best? Which has more synonyms for the word clean?n/

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nHerenare some thesaurus games you can play! 

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nAlsonon this date:

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nWinnie the Pooh Day 
See also  November 14 - Happy Birthday, Claude Monet
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