The world's first historical thesaurus, based on the OED: who find this news exciting and thrilling?

I love the OED. It is unmatched. I would be thrilled to have this publication.

Yum, can’t wait, need it, want it, can’t afford it.

It’s only ten cents a page! An unimaginable bargain.

Luckily, I can eat my cake and have it too, as I’m sure we will buy a copy for the library I work in. Sounds like an excuse for many happy hours “lost” in the reference stacks.

Saying I can’t afford it, and saying it’s expensive are different. I don’t think it’s too expensive, I’m just penurious, impecunious, broke, busted, out of dough, poor…

Yes. Yes, it is. And not only does it make my inner word geek happy, my inner history sprite is positively agog.

I find this news not only exciting and thrilling, but also exhilarating, arousing, stimulating and stirring.

What a great literary club this group could form! Love you all.

@Jeruba It’s only $316 with free shipping! I’ll wait til it’s available for Kindle though

Just read the blurb on it. What an achievement! I’d love one.
Although, like so many reference books, the eventual electronic version will no doubt render it too pedestrian. The horse and cart to the jet plane, as it were.

Sounds like a wonderful thing. I would love to have one, but the price is a bit steep and it would be a bit heavy for arthritic hands. Wonder when the digital version will come out?

@Darwin I tried to find out but see no info from the publisher on that release

I will always want a reference book with heft and texture, the scent of printer’s ink, the crisp whisper of pages turning, the sight of fine typography. I’ll wait until Levenger brings back one of their fine wooden rolling dictionary stands and outfit it with a little leash so it can follow me around wherever I go.

I’d proudly display that in my bookcase. One day…

<drools>

If only this had come out sooner! When I was married to my ex, two of the gifts I asked for (and received!) were a huge encyclopedic dictionary (a Christmas present), and the complete works of Mark Twain (a $350 investment in books, my 10th anniversary present). He could afford my literary fancies. Alas, I cannot. :(

@Jeruba I used to have that viewpoint. Now, I want it all digital except for my collector’s editions.

@Jeruba….If you would allow me to hold the tome, you may tether me with leash and I will gladly and faithfully follow you around wherever you wish to go!
Your humble servant….Gary/wtf

Naughty Gary/wtf

Oh, thank you, dear Gary, and I would trust you as mobile bearer of any dictionary of mine, but we all know that your tether is already pledged to another.

Truly I don’t know what I will do with those I have now. I brought home all my reference works from the office when I left and am stowing them wherever I can. At the moment there are already five dictionaries in the living room alone, two of them OEDs. Like it or no, I may have to settle for the electronic version of this beauty if one ever becomes available.

Does the OED have an entry for a “yawn” emoticon?

No electronic reference books for me. No way, no how. I’ll be that old lady telling all the whippersnappers how, in my day, books were made of paper!

So far, I don’t even want electronic fiction. I am a dinosaur. I know it.

I can’t abide electronic fiction. Ordinarily I wouldn’t want electronic reference books, either, but when they get above a certain size they are just too difficult to handle. Besides when I fall asleep while reading in bed and the book falls on my face I would like to keep from getting a broken nose.

Yes, I do read reference books in bed at night.

I think it’s awesome, but I wouldn’t buy it. I’d prefer an online version, so it can be easily updated.

@Jeruba….You are, as always, quite right. I was merely looking for a day job, but as usual, failed to make myself clear. Now, if you’ll pardon me, @sccrowell beckons.
See ya…Gary/wtf

What’s another word for Thesaurus?

I was busy yesterday so missed this wonderful tome. Ah, if only I could afford it. As a verbivore, a logolept and a wordaholic, this is most definitely NOT a snore for me !

@stratman37 – Here are some: glossary, language reference book, lexicon, onomasticon, reference book, sourcebook, storehouse of words, terminology, treasury of words, vocabulary, and word list.

I particularly like onomasticon (a dictionary of proper names).

@stratman37 A bookgasm.

@augustlan Nice to see you’re feel better again and not so snotty anymore. :-)

@Darwin: “Onanasticon”—a book of synonyms for “masturbation.”

Oh. Snotty. I thought you meant @augustlan had been Snotty. That would have been out of character.

@pdworkin Yes, it was a joke in reference to this

i remembered just in time, thanks.

Still snotty, but in a better mood anyway. :)

GA, @ratboy. And naughty, as usual.

Very exciting, thrilling, stirring, stimulating, electrifying and not at all dull, insignificant, normal, ordinary, trivial, uneventful, unnoteworthy or usual.