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#OTD in 1852.
Roget's Thesaurus, created by retired British physician Peter Mark Roget, is first published as Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Classified and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas and Assist in Literary Composition in London.
Roget's Thesaurus at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10681
Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
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#US #Dictionary #AmericanEnglish #News #Housing #Communities
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...and what I cannot stand is that British native speakers are completely oblivious of the #SubjunctiveMode.
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In saying that, you are aware that #AmericanEnglish is, in many aspects, more original than British English b/c Noah Webster was so far ahead in his time in preparing his famous dictionary.
Also, have you had the change to place a full printed edition of Webster's next to the Oxford's Dictionary?
Even discounting the many neologisms, Webster has more than 1 million words, many more than Oxford's Dictionary or the German Duden.
