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Thesaurus UnboundIf Roget's is becoming a relic, what lies ahead?

By Christine Kenneally
Posted Monday, April 7, 2008, at 7:39 AM ET

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Christine Kenneally is the author of The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language. Her writings can be found on the blog www.christinekenneally.com.
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Many many years ago I was a clerk in a bookshop on a busy downtown street. It was August, and the window dressers had set up a large display of reference books for a back-to-school promotion. One day a man came in and asked me for Roger's Treasure. I looked through the history and fiction section before I realized that he had seen Roget's Thesaurus in the window. He apparently thought it was a thrilling story of Captain Kidd and the pirates of the Spanish Main.

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