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> ...why not arrange the words by, e.g., what sort of thing they’re about? I don't know if that exists, but there are rhyming dictionaries.
by stevefolta 2y ago
> ...why not arrange the words by, e.g., what sort of thing they’re about?
I don't know if that exists, but there are rhyming dictionaries.
- dhosek 2y agoSome early dictionaries did in fact do this, and this was also the case with Roget’s project with his thesaurus (most contemporary thesauri arrange the main headings in alphabetical order, thus the title, “Roget’s Thesaurus in Dictionary Form”) where he arranged the words in a tree of classifications. Most rhyming dictionaries are still alphabetical, but I think it was Webster’s that kept a file of headwords alphabetized in reverse order (so order would be sorted as redro, reverse as esrever, etc.) to facilitate the creation of rhyming dictionaries, but a case could be made that this order could be useful on its own.
- taylorius 2y agoA thesaurus - sort of.
- dhosek 2y agoThe original very much so, actually.
- eddd-ddde 2y agoIsn't this what enciclopedias are? You have animals in one section, you have countries in another, you have every component in a motor vehicle in another, etc.
- dhosek 2y agoI’ve never encountered an encyclopedia arranged like that. All that I’ve seen were strictly alphabetical with China next to Chipmunk
- eddd-ddde 2y agoPerhaps encyclopaedia is not the word. As a kid I had tons of book like this. I still remember one of my favourites had a whole section on what I believe was housing temperature control and insulation!