Christian Kay

The world's largest thesaurus?

From the Daily Mail:

Professor Christian Kay is not one for showing off. 'Scots are quite good at dictionaries,' she says in her gentle but precise Edinburgh accent. 'Pure, grim determination is our thing.'

Quite good? Now that's taking self-deprecation a bit far. For this is the woman who has spent two-thirds of her life on an unrivalled labour of literary love.

After 42 years of toil, this October she will finally publish the mammoth Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, the biggest thesaurus ever published. It boasts a staggering one million index entries.


Wonderful story! Go and read!