In this file, comments which are not a proper part of the thesaurus
itself are contained within arrow brackets thus:  <—­ comment —­>. 
     Section headings, which are not an actual part of the thesaurus
proper, are included between percent (%) markers. 
     Occasional references to numbers starting with “@” are the embryonic
beginnings of a reorganized version, mentioned below.  A few comments are also included within curly brackets {}. 
     Last edit 12-20-91.
          
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  The following additional differences will be noted between this version
and the original edition of the printed 1911 thesaurus: 
  (1) the space-saving abbreviations in the original, using hyphens to
      represent common words, prefixes or suffixes, have been expanded
      into the full words or phrases.
  (2) the side-by-side format for words and their opposites has been
      abandoned.  Words are listed in order of their entry number.
  (3) each main entry (1035 entries) has a pound sign “#” in front of
      the number to facilitate computerized search.
  (4) Greek words and phrases are transliterated and included between
      brackets in the format gr/greek word/gr.
  (5) where italics occurred in the original, italics are used in the
      Microsoft Word format file.  In the plain ASCII file, this
      formatting is lost.
  (6) in the original book, words which were obsolete (in 1911) were
      marked with a dagger.  In this version, those words are marked with a
      vertical bar ("|"). 
      Some of the words which were still current in 1911, but are no longer
      found in a current college-size dictionary (presently obsolete words),
      or which are no longer used in the specific indicated sense, have been
      marked with a bar followed by an exclamation point “|!”.  However,
      this marking process has just commenced, and only a small portion of
      the words which are now obsolete have been thus marked.  Most though
      not all of the foreign-language phrases are now obsolete. 
      The “obsolete” notation [obs3] indicates that the previous word (or
      some word in the previous phrase) is not recognized by the word
      processor’s spelling checker, and also is either not in a modern
      college-sized dictionary, or is noted there as being “Archaic”.
  (7) the approximate location of the bottom of each page in the original
      1911 printed book is indicated by a comment of the form: 
      <—­ p. 23 —­>.  To search for a page, note that there are two spaces
      between the “p.” and the page number.
  (8) This file contains only the main body of the thesaurus.  Neither
      outline nor index are contained here.  The outline with an overview
      of the organization of the concepts is contained in a separate file,
      “outline.doc”, on the distribution disk.