Forty-year wait for new thesaurus
I heard this story whilst listening to Radio 4 on the way home on Monday and it really caught my interest.
“The world's largest thesaurus is due to be published this autumn, Oxford University Press has said.
The project began in 1965 and will include almost the entire vocabulary of the English language.
The work was nearly destroyed in a fire in 1978, but despite the building being gutted, a metal filing cabinet protected the files.
A spokesman said the final tome would contain over 230,000 categories with 800,000 meanings.”
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Oxfordshire | Forty-year wait for new thesaurus
Probably makes the Thesaurus in Word a little puny
Also can you imagine working on a 40 year project? what would you do when you finished?
“Professor Christian Kay, 69, one of four co-editors, began working on the book in the late 1960s when she was 27.
She said: "I didn't think at the time I would be involved 40 years later.”
Rob
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