Thesaurus 45 years in the making
Tatzelwurm
Posted: Oct 31 2009, 04:21 PM


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A thesaurus containing more than 800,000 meanings dating back 1300 years which has taken academics more than 45 years to compile is set to go on sale costing £200.



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"But I did find it very interesting. I am still surprised how many words there are for certain categories.
"For example, there are 265 ways to say 'immediately'.
"A word I found which I really like is 'purfle'. It means 'to decorate the surface of a violin'. I had never heard about it before.




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In King Alfred's day a stupid person would have been a medwis, modigleas, samwis, ungerad, stuntlic or a sort.
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