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Thesauruses (thesauri?)

by janra
Posted to Craft, The tools we use on Fri Jan 26, 2001 at 06:50:13 PM PST
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In one of the first classes of my first-year english course, the professor asked two questions: "How many of you own a thesaurus?" (about half of the class) and "How many of you actually use your thesaurus?" (about an eighth of the class). The people who didn't use their thesaurus looked sheepish, until she declared that a thesaurus often made your writing worse.

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