Jan 18

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What’s Special About Jan 18?

Thesaurus Day; Peter Mark Roget; Kathleen Norris

For language lovers, today is Thesaurus Day — a day to commemorate the publication of Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (often referred to as Roget’s Thesaurus) by the English lexicographer Peter Mark Roget.

But no one knows who’d invented this idea to celebrate Mr. Roget’s birthday (Jan 18, 1770) to…

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