{"id":3302,"date":"2017-01-18T12:47:39","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T19:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greetingcarduniverse.com\/blog\/?p=3302"},"modified":"2025-02-03T15:48:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T22:48:38","slug":"thesaurus-day-january-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greetingcarduniverse.com\/blog\/thesaurus-day-january-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesaurus Day — January 18"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thesaurus Day is a celebration of Peter Mark Roget’s January 18 birthday. Roget, a doctor, spent his retirement writing Roget\u2019s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases<\/i>.<\/p>\n

A thesaurus is a book of English words and phrases with similar meaning. \u201cThesaurus\u201d is Latin for \u201ctreasure\u201d. Roget’s original (first\/initial) thesaurus contained 15,000 words in six categories: quantity, relation, number, existence, and time. Currently, the book (volume\/work\/writing) has 230,000 words. Since its first publication, Roget’s Thesaurus<\/i> has never been out of print.<\/p>\n

A thesaurus is an important (necessary\/essential) tool (means\/device) for students (pupil\/scholar), but should be used cautiously (carefully, guardedly). As Professor Simeon Potter, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Linguistics has stated: “[A thesaurus is] a good reminder of words momentarily forgotten, but a bad guide to words previously unknown.” This warning (admonition\/caution) is given because (as a result of\/owing to) words in a thesaurus are without context (frame of reference\/connection). It’s up to the user to decide (determine\/conclude) whether a word works in the context (frame of reference\/situation) of the information (data\/material) they’re trying (endeavoring\/effort) to present.<\/p>\n

Brighten (enliven\/lighten) the day of your favorite English teacher, editor, logophile, or writer by recognizing (observing\/noting) Thesaurus Day.<\/p>\n

Thesaurus Day Greeting Cards\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Thesaurus Day is a celebration of Peter Mark Roget’s January 18 birthday. Roget, a doctor, spent his retirement writing Roget\u2019s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases. A thesaurus is a book of English words and phrases with similar meaning. \u201cThesaurus\u201d is Latin for \u201ctreasure\u201d. Roget’s original (first\/initial) thesaurus contained 15,000 words in six categories: … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thesaurus-day-january-18"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t