Word: thesauri
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thesaurus" is a mouthful; it does not roll trippingly on the tongue. Nor do its plural forms, the highfalutin thesauri, or thesauruses, which sounds like a prehistoric creature. Thesaurus means treasury or storehouse, but nobody calls Nicholas Brady Secretary of the Thesaurus or says, "Dear, pack up your winter underwear and lock it in the thesaurus...
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