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...TITLE: ROGET'S INTERNATIONAL THESAURUS...
That is because that word is forever linked to Peter Mark Roget, the man who practically invented it. An English physician and lifelong logophile, Roget was 73 in 1852 when he published his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary Composition. Today Roget's International Thesaurus still hews to its promise. It is the best of its kind, a veritable arsenal of words and phrases with their synonyms, antonyms and related terms, all classified and organized to help writers and speakers say clearly what they mean...
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...
...computer CD, known in the industry as a CD ROM (for "read only memory"), is just 4.72 in. in diameter but can store as much information as a stack of typewritten pages nine stories high. Dozens of reference books, from Grolier's Academic American Encyclopedia to Roget's Thesaurus, have appeared in CD form, and many more...
About 20 million copies of Roget's Thesaurus have been sold. Half a dozen American publishers put out their own versions, and most of them sniff at the idea of any major updating or expurgating. St. Martin's, the New York publisher that has issued the most recent authorized Longman edition, will decide this summer whether to take on the revised version. "There has been a marked change in the way people look at thesauruses," says St. Martin's President Tom McCormack. "Originally they were illustrative; they just listed synonyms. Now they are normative, because people...