Book review
A History of Roget’s Thesaurus: Origins, Development, and Design. By Werner Hüllen.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. ix, 410 pp. ISBN 0-19-925472-9 GBP 86.50

Reviewed by Fredric Dolezal
University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.
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