Do you own a lexicon of riches chiffonier publication? That is, a treasure chest of words in book form, otherwise known as a thesaurus? Do you use the wrong word or the right word wrong? Do you reach ...

Have The Durango Herald and The Journal writers ever heard of a thing called a thesaurus? I read far too many times the overuse of the word “uptick” in far too many articles, in far too many reports, ...

As a result of objections voiced by the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation League to synonyms given for the word, “Jew,” in Roget’s International Thesaurus, the new edition which the publishers, Thomas Y.

Once, a regular contributor to the opinion pages in the local dailies confided in me that he could barely recognize a truncated opinion he had submitted for publication, except for his name as the ...

A one-man crusade against Roget’s Thesaurus’ use of “Jew” as a synonym for “lender” and “parsimony” was crowned with victory today when the publisher and the editor agreed to delete the offending ...