Ways to Say

Vodkapundit and assorted other bloggers have transmitted some dozen advisories on the disgraceful PCBS destruction of Roget's Thesaurus ten days ago. Though we've reverted to a 1911 version, relatively disordered and obsolete, a fellow sufferer informs us that a site called FreeThesaurus.net (qv) is a more than adequate replacement.

Indeed it is... site posts 30,000 main entries with 2,500,000+ synonyms. In contrast to Roget's (sic) genuinely stupid results for "Father" or "Weapon", FreeThesaurus.net lists dozens upon dozens of stated or implied equivalents, including "City Fathers", "Holy Father"; elder, patriarch, senior, ad infinitum. Verb forms and turns-of-phrase receive extensive treatment. Nothing could reveal more starkly the crude ideological bias behind Roget's desecration.

If our own and Vodkapundit's reaction to gutting Roget's is any indication, that originally appealing site will be out of business in three months. Good riddance.