Thanks, AnnaS, a very interesting article, if for no other reason than my own previous ignorance on the subject of Dr. P.M. Roget. I can see how the availability and convenience of Roget's thesaurus may have exacerbated the decline in standards of communication, but I fsuspect that the author is laying rather too much of the blame on Roget's, without considering the other factors contributing to the growing problem of alliteracy (sic)A fascinating read all the same, and I am sure that the author is correct in saying that Dr. Roget would be aghast at the uses to to which his work has been put. In my own childhood browsing Roget's and then looking up definitions in a dictionary was a great fun way to while away the hours, and expand my vocabulary,