G'day katlaughing (et al),

" ... nothing like the real, sunstantial thing in your hands! Book, I mean book!**BG** ..."

Yes ... and a real Roget's Thesaurus is nothing like those "dictionary of synomyms" bastardisations that you Yanks keeping publishing with the misleading claim to be Roget's Thesauruses (more correct plural, as thesaurus is from the Greek, not a Latin word!).

My Roget's - a volume of related words and phrases which are accessed via a preliminary table of associations, can lead me to hundreds of associated words, phrases and thoughts. It compares to an American Roget as a 3-dimensional sculture compares to a flat sketch ... and it doesn't comply with the massive censorship evident in the American dictionary version that skulks near the Blue Niger leather-bound Folio Society Roget's that is final arbiter and inspiration.

Regard(les),

Bob Bolton