Would it surprise you that the thesaurus was written by an obsessive person?
June 12, 2013 by Prof. David M. Schultz
Filed under Blog, Featured, Potpourri, Writing
Peter Roget, who wrote Roget’s Thesaurus, came from a family of mental instability: “His grandmother was mentally unstable, his mother was nearly psychotic and his sister and daughter had suffered severe mental breakdowns (Cracked.com, 2012)” But, he loved to make lists. After 12 years of making lists of all words and their relationship to each […]
