The most well-known thesaurus of the English language was Roget's Thesaurus (1805) which stood the test of time for well over a century. When in 1965 Michael Samuels from the University of Glasgow ...

Wasted. Wrecked. Smashed. These are all common words used to describe someone who has had a few too many beers. Thanks to a new web tool, you can now turbo-charge your vocabulary - drawing on 1,000 ...

The first thesaurus charting the historical development of the English language will be published later this year, 45 years after the project began. Stephen Adams Stephenadams 12 August 2009 • 3:11pm ...

At a glance, it’s obvious that the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, published in the fall to worldwide lexicographic acclaim, took a lot of work. The two thick blue volumes sort ...

How would a person in the early 1600s call someone an idiot? "Half-wit" is tempting, but it turns out to date from a century-and-a-half later. "Chucklehead" is no good either (1731), but "blockhead" ...

Christian Kay’s work on the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary started out as inauspiciously as most careers do. “I just wanted a job, to be quite honest,” she says, “and this ...

Professor Michael Samuels of the University of Glasgow who instigated work on the Historical Thesaurus in 1964 Credit: Photo: CENTRAL SCOTLAND NEWS Yesterday saw the publication of the Historical ...

When did a lavatory become a loo? And why were Victorian trousers "unmentionables"? The world's first historical thesaurus, which is to be published after more than 40 years of research, claims to ...

Professor Christian Kay has spent the last 42 years compiling the mammoth Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. Running to 4,448 pages and with a mind-boggling million index entries, ...