Word: roget
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...TITLE: ROGET'S INTERNATIONAL THESAURUS...
Computer enthusiasts have long predicted that the digital revolution would soon liberate the word from the printed page and put it directly on the screen. In the past decade, hundreds of reference books -- including such well-known titles as Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and Roget's Thesaurus -- have appeared in electronic form. But when it comes to literature, the electronic-publishing movement has run into resistance from both readers and publishers. As inevitable as the paperless book may seem, neither group could quite imagine sitting down to read Faulkner, Fielding or Flaubert on a computer...