*About

[ 1 2 3 ]

1. Original Electric Text: [ ↑ ]
-------------------------------------------
Source: Project Gutenberg
Title: Roget's Thesaurus
Author: Peter Mark Roget
Release Date: December, 1991 [EBook #22]
[Most recently updated: January 5, 2004]
Edition: 15a
*******************************************
Thesaurus-1911
Version 1.02 (supplemented: July 18, 1991)
*******************************************
An electronic thesaurus derived from the version of Roget's Thesaurus published in 1911. This thesaurus has been prepared by MICRA, Inc., Plainfield, NJ. (May 1991.) Note that this version of Thesaurus-1911 has been supplemented with over 1,000 words not present in the original 1911 edition.

The following additional differences will be noted between this (JIS X 4081) version and the original printed and/or etext edition of the 1911 thesaurus:

(1) The space-saving abbreviations in the original, using hyphens to represent common words, prefixes or suffixes, have been expanded into the full words or phrases.
(2) Greek words and phrases are transliterated.
(3) In the original book, words which were obsolete (in 1911) were marked with a dagger(†). Some of the words which were still current in 1911, but are no longer found in a current college-size dictionary (presently obsolete words), or which are no longer used in the specific indicated sense, have been marked the same.
(4) Classification Plan with full links to the main text is supplemented.

2. Peter Mark Roget [ ↑ ]
* January 18, 1779 (London)
† September 12, 1869 (West Malvern/Worcestershire)

The Karpeles Manuscript Library (U.S.A.) preserves a small archive of Dr. Roget's manuscripts including the complete original manuscript of Roget's Thesaurus.
Manuscript: Existence (image)
[ http://www.rain.org/~karpeles/rogfrm.html ]

3. Frequency Distribution (approx.) v0.1a [ ↑ ]

Download Word List in .csv format (Freq.lzh - 289 KB)

Rank	Word	Freq.	Count	Total	Accum. (%)
1	hold, light	26	2	52	52	0.05
3	cut	25	1	25	77	0.08
4	discharge	24	1	24	101	0.10
5	pass	23	1	23	124	0.13
		22	0	0	124	0.13
6	charge, return, ...	21	4	84	208	0.21
10	break, dull, ...	20	5	100	308	0.31
15	cast, close, ...	19	7	133	441	0.45
22	cross, flat, ...	18	5	90	531	0.54
27	beat, check, ...	17	9	153	684	0.69
36	cheer, count, ...	16	14	224	908	0.92
50	cover, file, ...	15	9	135	1,043	1.05
59	bolt, dark, ...	14	22	308	1,351	1.37
81	advance, balance, ...	13	45	585	1,936	1.96
126	air, alternate, ...	12	53	636	2,572	2.60
179	absolute, abuse, ...	11	73	803	3,375	3.41
252	account, act, ...	10	102	1,020	4,395	4.44
354	abide, after, ...	9	137	1,233	5,628	5.69
491	abandon, admission, ...	8	218	1,744	7,372	7.45
709	acrimony, adventure, ...	7	367	2,569	9,941	10.04
1,076	about, absolve, ...	6	575	3,450	13,391	13.53
1,651	aberration, absent, ...	5	1,081	5,405	18,796	18.99
2,732	abandonment, ...	4	2,095	8,380	27,176	27.46
4,827	abandoned, abduct, ...	3	4,277	12,831	40,007	40.43
9,104	be a party to, ...	2	9,683	19,366	59,373	59.99
18,787	be a candidate, ...	1	39,592	39,592	98,965	100.00
(Total)			(58,378)	(98,965)
Rank	Word	Freq.	Count	Total	Accum. (%)