Comments on: The Historical Thesarus of the Oxford English Dictionary: Some fun facts and figuresHistorial Thesaurus Week http://blog.oup.com/2009/10/htoed-facts/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Sat, 25 May 2013 23:50:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Jack McIntyre http://blog.oup.com/2009/10/htoed-facts/#comment-154378 Jack McIntyre Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:18:29 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=5984#comment-154378 Sure wish I could afford it. Sure wish I could afford it.

]]> By: Dr Donald Gillies http://blog.oup.com/2009/10/htoed-facts/#comment-154364 Dr Donald Gillies Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:56:14 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=5984#comment-154364 I worked on this project as part of a Manpower Services initiative. Having graduated in 1981, six months of frustrating unemployment at least did trigger qualification for this Manpower Services Scheme which allowed me 14 months' work on the project. I had a bizarre experience working through the revised OED from 'clone' to corner', assigning each word and nuance of meaning to a Roget category. Six months of that was rewarded by being assigned to the letter P and I worked for the next period on all words from 'P' to 'para'. One break from this did occur when Christian Kay let me work on draft categorization within some Roget sections. I remember doing some work on Roget 343 'Gulf'(why me?) and 451 'Philosophy'(one of my Honours subjects,at least). Many surreal moments, a highlight being when we came across the following in the OED: Cornerflag(verb)- To run towards a cornerflag. It did at least stimulate some puerile variations one of which I recall was 'Cornerpub' - which we certainly did that day. Delighted to see the project completed. I worked on this project as part of a Manpower Services initiative. Having graduated in 1981, six months of frustrating unemployment at least did trigger qualification for this Manpower Services Scheme which allowed me 14 months’ work on the project. I had a bizarre experience working through the revised OED from ‘clone’ to corner’, assigning each word and nuance of meaning to a Roget category. Six months of that was rewarded by being assigned to the letter P and I worked for the next period on all words from ‘P’ to ‘para’. One break from this did occur when Christian Kay let me work on draft categorization within some Roget sections. I remember doing some work on Roget 343 ‘Gulf’(why me?) and 451 ‘Philosophy’(one of my Honours subjects,at least). Many surreal moments, a highlight being when we came across the following in the OED: Cornerflag(verb)- To run towards a cornerflag. It did at least stimulate some puerile variations one of which I recall was ‘Cornerpub’ – which we certainly did that day. Delighted to see the project completed.

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