3/14/2024 0 Comments Radio silence synonym![]() The lucky contributors included Zadie Smith, David Foster Wallace, Simon Winchester, Francine Prose, David Auburn, David Lehman, Erin McKean, Stephin Merritt, Jean Strouse, and me. These pieces-on words ranging from “achingly” to “yump”-were consequently scattered throughout the OAWT, little oases of prose among all the word-lists. ![]() To further enhance the new thesaurus, the Oxford editors also asked 10 very different writers to contribute mini-essays on words they loved or hated. Thus, on page 427 of the second edition, published in 2008, one finds a little box explaining the nuances distinguishing such similar words as “honor, deference, homage, obeisance” and “reverence.” ![]() The Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus would be alphabetical (rather than thematic, as Roget’s original had been), and it would include tables and inserts detailing the graded differences in connotation among groups of synonyms. Some years back, Oxford University Press decided to bring out a new thesaurus. ![]()
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