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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.
The American Thesaurus of Slang, by Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van Den Bark (1943) defines gedunk as `to eat a sundae' [p.
Other biomedical databases that include CAM literature, such as CINAHL - Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature [ 11 ] and MANTIS - Manual, Alternative and Natural Therapy Index System [ 12 ] , also use MeSH as their standard thesaurus with a list of supplement terms in their subject areas.
In addition to MeSH, we used subject headings [sh] in the CINAHL online thesaurus and the descriptors [de] in the online MANTIS thesaurus to prepare searches in other online databases.
Before getting into that, I feel compelled to reiterate my perpetual complaint about the prospective users of such books: in order to look something up in a reference book of any kind—dictionary, thesaurus, usage book, encyclopedia—a person must either acknowledge that he does not know something or, at least, have doubts about the information he already possesses.