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Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Paperback – 5 Aug. 2004

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Roget's Thesaurus ranks as one of the greatest English language reference works, used for generations by anyone looking for help in order to write a letter, prepare a speech, solve a crossword, or write any manner of prose or poem. Its sales now exceed 32 million copies. This concise edition contains the essential entries from the original 1852 volume, and has been revised and updated to include all the latest buzzwords and phrases.

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'One of the English language's greatest achievements' -- Guardian

'The indispensable guide to the English language' -- Daily Express

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Peter Mark Roget created a classed catalogue of words on a small scale in 1805 for his own use as a writer and lecturer. However, it was only after retiring from the duties of Secretary of the Royal Society that he was able to amplify the volume and create the now famous 1852 edition. Since then, Roget's Thesaurus has been updated many times, but Roget's original classification system for the book has stood the test of time and is still used today. George Davidson is a highly experienced editor and lexicographer, and a former senior editor at Chambers Harrap. He edited the 150th anniversary edition of Roget and is currently writing a Pocket Roget Thesaurus. He lives in Edinburgh.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin; New ed edition (5 Aug. 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 848 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0140515038
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0140515039
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 3.5 x 19.8 cm

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It's a thesaurus.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 12 March 2023

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It took me a while to get used the the way this one is laid out, but it is ok. I would prefer one that is more like a dictionary.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 30 March 2023

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This is a big strong tome with Everything Within. Might be a little heavy for some people. Used every day by recipient, Crossword Fan. Previous paperback I bought for him fell apart from frequent use, so this one should last. Excellent value.

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Mavis Diplock

Every House should have one

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I use my Roget's Thesauraus for writing letters and completing crosswords. It wears out after about 3
years so I buy another one. This is my 4th book.

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Doc Barbara

Indispensable for any reader or writer of English

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Roget's Thesaurus is a classic and I am always agog at the learning and stamina of its original compilers. It is divided into sections and therefore needs an index to find a particular word and this takes up nearly half of the book. The sections include " Abstract relations" with 8 sub-headings, "Space" with 4 and so on. Let's say you want "uselessness" (as I did when my cake sank): you go to the index, find "useless" as an adjective and at number 641. There you find the noun "uselessness" with many synonyms, other numbered words to look up, sub-sections such as "rubbish" (describes my cake exactly!), the adjectival sense with similar entries and the verb "make useless". Best of all is the inclusion of expressions: here are several such as "flog a dead horse" (as in trying to revive a failed cake!) It is therefore a dictionary of idioms also. Using it sounds complex but it does become second nature when you have a copy in your eager hands - so buy it now. You won't regret it!

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A very good copy of Roget's Thesaurus

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This is a very good copy of Roget's Thesaurus and is really useful

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Buy the Penguin version!!! - there's non better

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 18 October 2011

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I bought my first Penguin version of the Roget's Thesaurus, second hand, during my 2nd year at seniors school.

Since then I bought and worn out 3 further copies. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (Penguin Reference) is my 4th copy. I've looked at and used other thesauruses (or thesauri depending on your dictionary) and always found this incarnation the easiest to use.

In most cases, books are beginning to lose out to their on-line brethren but I feel that this book gives you a much greater and easier access to similar words than any on-line version I've used.

Amazon's price also makes it almost a crime NOT to buy a copy for your home - your kids will love you for it!!!!!

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Being German and finding it fairly easy to learn the English language - nine years in total - no teacher
ever told me about this amazing book. An English friend of mine gave it to me as a present for my 26th
birthday, some thirty-four years ago. He put a hand-written dedication in it saying "You should never
be short of the right word". As it so often happens, we are not in touch with each other anymore.

And that's what this book is all about - an astonishing array of vocabulary with a cross-over into
six different categories. About every ten years I get hold of the latest edition. I can't live
without it.

Dennis Andrew King - where are you now?

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Disappointing to bad update of Roget's magnificent work. The price of a few contemporary words (some already out of use) is the loss of swathes of older terms. The reason for removing words seems to be an ill-defined and inconsistent sense of obsolescence or 'old-fashionedness'; but the presence of such words alongside words in popular usage is one of the values of the thesauraus Roget created. Example: section 794, Merchant. WORDS REMOVED(compared to an older Roget): merchant prince, merchant venturer, liveryman, livery company, concern, slaver, slave trader, wholesale merchant, chandler, stock-jobber, share-pusher, company promoter, moneychanger, cambist, tradesfolk, regrater, storekeeper, monger, provision merchant, rag-and-bone man, itinerant tradesman, colporteur, chapman, cheapjack, coster, huckster, sutler, vivandiere. Some are obsolete (stock-jobber - just - and thankfully slave trader - the Society for the Abolition of Slavery would disagree)); some are historically important (merchant prince, merchant venturer); some are restricted in usage but still current (livery and the City of London}; some are simply no longer in current usage (chapman, sutler); some are barely out of usage (no rag-and-bone men but endless repeats of Steptoe and Son on satellite TV!); some are unusual now but definitely used (cheapjack, 'business' concern). But what about storekeeper (mostly American but common in some parts of Britain) and a 'ship's' chandler? The phrase 'chamber of commerce' has been replaced by 'room of commerce', not English at all and nonsense, a chamber of commerce is an association of local business people not a room where business is conducted. This sounds like the kind of gaffe only a non-native speaker or a computer could make - chamber = old-fashioned word for room! If you are in education, read books, care about history, watch films that weren't made last week, do crosswords, engage in any kind of intellectual activity at all, want to know about your language and cherish it - don't buy this. Its principles are arbitrary, subjective, inconsistent and carelessly profligate when it comes to junking Roget's intentions for his thesaurus. Find a better version.

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