{"id":296,"date":"2009-07-17T20:49:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T20:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2009-07-12T21:02:16","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T21:02:16","slug":"a-very-large-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/17\/a-very-large-book\/","title":{"rendered":"A very large book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/250px-historical_thesaurus-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary\" title=\"The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-297\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/250px-historical_thesaurus-220x300.jpg 220w, http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/250px-historical_thesaurus.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/>Having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/24\/how-are-dictionaries-madehow-are-dictionaries-made\/\">posted <\/a>previously about dictionaries, now it\u2019s the turn of the dictionary companion \u2013 the thesaurus. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oxford_University_Press\">Oxford University Press <\/a>has announced that the world\u2019s largest thesaurus is due to be published in the autumn. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.gla.ac.uk\/SESLL\/EngLang\/thesaur\/further.htm\">The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary<\/a>, to give it the full name, contains 800,000 meanings in over 230,000 categories, with the project taking over forty years to complete. Started in 1965, the Press originally used classifications from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roget's_Thesaurus\">Roget\u2019s<\/a>, but the authors had to start a new system when it became obvious this was not detailed enough. <\/p>\n<p>The thesaurus has an interesting history, having survived fire and funding problems, along with the above mentioned new classification system. Not to mention all the new words that have been added to the English language since 1965\u2026 One of the co-authors, Professor Christian Kay, has been with the project almost since the beginning \u2013 starting work when she was 27, she is now 69 and has survived several of the project\u2019s founders. <\/p>\n<p>Apparently the aim is to link the thesaurus to the online Oxford English Dictionary, but no date has yet been set for this \u2013 let\u2019s hope it doesn\u2019t take another 40 years! In the meantime, if you\u2019d like to <a href=\"http:\/\/ukcatalogue.oup.com\/product\/9780199208999.do?keyword=historical+thesaurus&#038;sortby=bestMatches\">buy <\/a>your own copy of the thesaurus, it\u2019s a snip at just \u00a3250. <\/p>\n<p>See the full article from the BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/oxfordshire\/8136122.stm\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having posted previously about dictionaries, now it\u2019s the turn of the dictionary companion \u2013 the thesaurus. Oxford University Press has announced that the world\u2019s largest thesaurus is due to be published in the autumn. The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, to give it the full name, contains 800,000 meanings in over 230,000 categories, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,45,44],"tags":[46,51,135,137,136,134],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-words","tag-dictionary","tag-language","tag-oxford-university-press","tag-rogets","tag-the-historical-thesaurus-of-the-oxford-english-dictionary","tag-thesaurus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}