4.1167 Responses: Thesaurus; Nick Smith; CHum (5/84)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 20 Mar 91 16:55:53 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 1167. Wednesday, 20 Mar 1991.


(1) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 91 17:36 EST (20 lines)
From: Jim Wilderotter -- Georgetown Center for Text and
Subject: re: thesaurus query

(2) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 91 00:59:24 EST (13 lines)
From: Eric Rabkin <USERGDFD@UMICHUM.BITNET>
Subject: re: thesaurus query

(3) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 91 23:02 EST (25 lines)
From: <DORENKAMP@HLYCROSS>
Subject: Thesaurus

(4) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 91 10:29:08 -0800 (14 lines)
From: Mary WhitlockBlundell <mwb@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Nick Smith

(5) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 91 18:22:32 -0500 (12 lines)
From: Joel Goldfield <joel@lambada.acs.unc.edu>
Subject: CHum e-mail address

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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 91 17:36 EST
From: Jim Wilderotter -- Georgetown Center for Text and
Subject: re: thesaurus query

Michael:

According to my thesaurus (The New Roget's Thesaurus in Dictionary
Form), other words for thesaurus are:

dictionary
lexicon
wordbook
storehouse
treasure house
treasury

Hope this helps.

Jim Wilderotter
Georgetown University
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Date: Sat, 16 Mar 91 00:59:24 EST
From: Eric Rabkin <USERGDFD@UMICHUM.BITNET>
Subject: re: thesaurus query


"Storehouse" or "treasury" in Greek, no?

Eric Rabkin
Department of English
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045
esrabkin@umichum.bitnet
esrabkin@um.cc.umich.edu
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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 91 23:02 EST
From: <DORENKAMP@HLYCROSS>
Subject: Thesaurus

Michael Ossar asks if anyone knows another word for "thesaurus." There
are, of course, two senses of the word: one broad and one narrow.

The first of these means "treasury" or "storehouse" and does not
necessarily refer to a collection of words. This first meaning gave
rise to the second, narrower sense when Roget in 1852 titled his work
*Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases....* Calling any such subsequent
work a "thesaurus" is kind of like calling a dictionary a "Webster's"
(or even more properly, I suppose, a "Roget's'). An alternate word for
this sense of "thesaurus" is "synonymy," even though most thesauruses
contain antonyms as well.

There is yet a third sense of the word which dwells somewhere in between
the two above senses, and that is a collection or "treasury" of
information often but not necessarily linguistic. For this meaning,
"storehouse" might do very well. For the purely verbal aspect, why not
the Old English "word hoard"?

And while we're at it, is there another word for "spellchecker"?

John Dorenkamp
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 91 10:29:08 -0800
From: Mary WhitlockBlundell <mwb@u.washington.edu>
Subject: Nick Smith

This is a message for the person who was looking for Nick Smith. (I'm
afraid I've lost your individual address, so I'm sending this to the
list.)

I've just found out (a) that my Nick Smith is your Nick Smith (i.e. he
does have utopian connections, and (b) that he is on line in Hong Kong:
ndsmith@hkucc.bitnet.

Mary Whitlock Blundell
mwb@u.washington.edu
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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 91 18:22:32 -0500
From: Joel Goldfield <joel@lambada.acs.unc.edu>
Subject: CHum e-mail address

Regarding Maurizio Lana's request for an e-mail address for CHum, one can
reach our editor, Prof. Glyn Holmes, at: holmes@uwovax.uwo.ca .

Regards,
Joel D. Goldfield

On-location with Glyn Holmes in scenic Tempe, Arizona.
[not to mention the editors of Humanist .... eds. note]