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Some very talented people have brought their knowledge to bear on everyday questions and problems of language in this book: Martin Manser, whose Penguin Wordmaster Dictionary was favorably reviewed here [XIV, 2]; Betty Kirkpatrick, editor of Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary ; Jonathon Green, compiler of the Thesaurus of Slang, Newspeak , and a Dictionary of Jargon (soon to be reviewed here); and John Silverlight, who writes a language column in The Observer , which I have not seen.
Let us assume that advanced students of a particular L2 have equipped themselves with the following reference word books: a top of the range L1→L2 and L2→L1 dictionary; a college -sized defining dictionary produced for and within their target L2 discourse community; the best available L2 synonym dictionary and thesaurus; and a dictionary of proverbs and idioms.
The recently published Oxford Thesaurus , by Laurence Urdang, contains thousands of example sentences to illustrate usage, including a sprinkling of quirky specimens, all from the American Edition; these were excised from the British Edition on the grounds that they were distracting
The thesaurus of MANTIS and CINAHL are based on MeSH with supplements for certain subject areas.
The American Thesaurus of Slang, by Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van Den Bark (1943) defines gedunk as `to eat a sundae' [p.