The original arrangement has also been modified slightly in several places, in particular by splitting one entry into two. A version of the 1911 thesaurus which is almost identical to the original (only a small number of additions have been made to the original work.)
In this eBook, comments which are not a proper part of the thesaurus itself are contained within arrow brackets,Section headings, which are not an actual part of the thesaurus proper, are included between percent (%) markers.
Occasional references to numbers starting with "@" are the embryonic beginnings of a reorganized version, mentioned below. A few comments are also included within curly brackets {}.
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The following additional differences will be noted between this version and the original edition of the printed 1911 thesaurus:
(1) the space-saving abbreviations in the original, using hyphens to represent common words, prefixes or suffixes, have been expanded into the full words or phrases.
(2) the side-by-side format for words and their opposites has been abandoned. Words are listed in order of their entry number.
(3) each main entry (1035 entries) has a pound sign "#" in front of the number to facilitate computerized search.
(4) Greek words and phrases are transliterated and included between brackets in this format .
(5) where italics occurred in the original are lost in this plain ASCII format.
(6) in the original book, words which were obsolete (in 1911) were marked with a dagger. In this version, those words are marked with a vertical bar ("|"). Some of the words which were still current in 1911, but are no longer found in a current college-size dictionary (presently obsolete words), or which are no longer used in the specific indicated sense, have been marked with a bar followed by an exclamation point "|!". However, this marking process has just commenced, and only a small portion of the words which are now obsolete have been thus marked. Most though not all of the foreign-language phrases are now obsolete. The "obsolete" notation [obs3] indicates that the previous word (or some word in the previous phrase) is not recognized by the word processor's spelling checker, and also is either NOT in a modern college-sized dictionary, or is noted there as being "ARCHAIC".
(7) the approximate location of the bottom of each page in the original 1911 printed book is indicated by a comment of the form:<--p.23--> . To search for a page, note that there are two spaces between the "p." and the page number.(8) this eBook contains only the main body of the thesaurus. Neither outline nor indexes are contained here.
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