Title:  Roget’s Thesaurus

Author:  Peter Mark Roget

Release Date:  December, 1991 [EBook #22]
[Most recently updated:  January 5, 2004]

Edition:  15a

Language:  English

Character set encoding:  Us-ASCII

*** Start of the project gutenberg EBOOK, Roget’s thesaurus ***

This is the Project Gutenberg Etext of Roget’s Thesaurus No.  Two It has not been compared with the roget13.txt so keep both!!  This edition should be labeled roget15a.txt or roget15a.zip

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**************** ** Thesaurus-1911 ** ** Version 1.02 (supplemented:  July 18, 1991) ** ************************************************************
************* <—­ An electronic thesaurus derived from the version of Roget’s Thesaurus published in 1911. 
     This thesaurus has been prepared by micra, Inc. (May 1991).
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     Micra, Inc. makes no representation that the original 1911 printed
work on which this is based is now in the public domain in any particular country.  However, micra, Inc. makes no proprietary claims regarding this electronic version of the 1911 thesaurus.  If the 1911 work is currently public domain, this electronic version can also be treated as public domain. 
     If any commercial use is made of this work prior to January 1, 1993,
it is suggested that an appropriate donation be made to micra, Inc. to assist in preparing other such texts which may be useful. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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Note that this version of Thesaurus-1911 has been supplemented with over 1,000 words not present in the original 1911 edition, but many modern words are still missing.  About 1500 verbs (out of 6500) which can be found in an 80,000-word spell-checker are absent from this work.  The deficiency of nouns is probably much worse, especially on technical topics.  Of 40,000 unique words contained in the original text, 12,000 are not recognized by a spell-checker.  Most of these are foreign words (primarily Latin), and many are obsolete.  In this version, these words are marked as such by comments in square brackets.  Although this version has been proof-read, there are doubtless numerous residual transcription errors, some of which may be obvious even without reference to the original text.  We will be grateful if any of these are brought to our attention; the corrections will appear in subsequent versions. 
     The original arrangement has also been modified slightly in several
places, in particular by splitting one entry into two.  A version of the 1911 thesaurus which is almost identical to the original (only a small number of additions to the original work) has also been prepared by micra, Inc., and also carries no restrictions from micra.  Copies of that version or this one may be purchased for $40.00 from micra, Inc., or from the Austin Code Works, Austin Texas.