roget in A Sentence

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    In 1840, Roget retired from medicine.

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    Peter Mark Roget.

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    Roget's biggest breakthrough, however, was inventing the“log-log scale” for slide rules.

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    The young Roget was phobic about dirt and easily upset by a world he saw as random, messy, unpredictable, and disorderly.

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    Roget ran outside and asked the cart driver to go back and forth in front of his home so he could study the effect.

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    It became a true thesaurus, which Roget would have been quick to point out meant“treasury” and not, as most people believe,“a list of synonyms.”.

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    Roget found the city so filthy and disorderly that he refused to go out for trivial reasons and spent most evenings and off-days indoors, tinkering and… making lists.

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    In fact, young Roget managed to keep it all so well in check that he was invited to study medicine and classics at Edinburgh University when he was 14 years old.

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    But perhaps the worst experience of Roget's young life was having a grieving uncle slash his own throat and bleed to death right in the middle of a conversation they were having.

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    In the midst of such horror, Roget's ritualistic sorting practices must have calmed him and given him a sense of order, helping him to stay functional while those around him were not.

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    Roget continued correcting and adding to subsequent editions until his death at age 90, and his heirs continued the task for another century by which time the name Roget's became so generic it was(sorry Mr. R.) synonymous with the word thesaurus.

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    After six weeks working on ways to repurpose London's sewage(we have no idea what he had in mind), Roget spent two years as a tutor and guide for a pair of wealthy young gentlemen doing their“Grand Tour” of Europe(Paris: dirty, Napoleon's soldiers: pleasingly precise).

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    Quick Fact 853: While there are instances of thesauri going all the way back to Philo of Byblos in the first century, the first modern thesaurus was created by Peter Mark Roget, which he began compiling in 1805 at the age of 26, and finally published the work in 1852.

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