‘The Right Word: Roget and His Thesaurus’ by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet
A picture-book biography of Peter Mark Roget, the creator of Roget's Thesaurus, one of the most widely used reference books ever published.
A picture-book biography of Peter Mark Roget, the creator of Roget's Thesaurus, one of the most widely used reference books ever published.
On the latest episode of The Prompt, Federico Viticci mentioned an iOS app called WordBook that sounded interesting enough for me to check out. It's a pretty powerful English dictionary and thesaurus, and I think it might just replace my long-running "Words to Remember" list in Simplenote. You can bookmark your favorite words and have them sync between devices via iCloud, have…