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  2. The Well-Spoken Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    The Well-Spoken Thesaurus by Tom Heehler (Sourcebooks 2011), is an American style guide and speaking aid. The Chicago Tribune calls The Well-Spoken Thesaurus "a celebration of the spoken word". [1] The book has also been reviewed in the Winnipeg Free Press, [2] and by bloggers at the Fayetteville Observer, [3] and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ...

  3. Category:Style guides for American English - Wikipedia

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    The Well-Spoken Thesaurus This page was last edited on 27 November 2023, at 02:34 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4 ...

  4. Category:Thesauri (lexicography) - Wikipedia

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    The Well-Spoken Thesaurus; This page was last edited on 21 December 2022, at 08:00 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...

  5. List of lexicographers - Wikipedia

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    Tom Heehler (US, born 1963) The Well-Spoken Thesaurus; Michael Heilprin (Poland/US, 1823–1888) Hebrew and English encyclopedic; James Curtis Hepburn (US/China/Japan, 1815–1911) Japanese and English bilingual; Charles George Herbermann (Germany/US, 1840–1916) English language LSP; Hesychius of Alexandria (Greece, 5th century) Ancient Greek ...

  6. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  7. Category:English language in the United States - Wikipedia

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  8. Talk:Tom Heehler - Wikipedia

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    "The Well-Spoken Thesaurus is a delightful book for anyone interested in language or the spoken word." And this, the link to which you already deleted: "The Well-Spoken Thesaurus is a great book for someone like me — I’m a writer and love words, but I am a writer precisely because I write far more eloquently than I speak. Author Tom Heehler ...

  9. Verb displacement - Wikipedia

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    The term as it relates to prose in literature (as opposed to poetry or linguistics [2] [3]) was first introduced in 2011 by Tom Heehler, author of The Well-Spoken Thesaurus, to describe one of the ways in which minimalist writers are able—consciously or otherwise—to enhance simple language without increasing complexity.