Peter Mark Roget compiled his influential thesaurus late in life. Illustration by Lucille Clerc In January 1802, Peter Mark Roget was an ambivalent young medical school graduate with no clear path. He ...

Peter Mark Roget compiled the first draft of his famous thesaurus in 1805 at the age of 26. He resumed serious work on it in the late 1840s, published the first edition in 1852 and continued to work ...

IEM—a tech-enabled global leader in disaster management and crisis response—announces the addition of Gisele Roget as a Senior Advisor. Ms. Roget will provide valuable insight and expertise on housing ...

For most of his life Roget, born 240 years ago today, was known for his contributions to medicine and science rather than literature. He was physician and Royal Society member who delved into topics ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Suppose I suffered from monologophobia – the obsessive fear of using the same word twice – a condition that that most celebrated of ...

* This weekend marks the 236th birthday of natural scientist Dr Peter Roget, a man so fond of list-making that he penned perhaps the ultimate list: the Thesaurus. It wasn't the first book to bring ...

That’s the open-ended question a Quinnipiac poll asked Americans in May. The No. 1 answer: “idiot.” I’ll grant you those aren’t exact synonyms. As Mrs. Bustard, my honors English teacher at Union High ...

Video game composer Wilbert Roget II's big break came just a few years after graduating from Yale University, where he graduated with a BA in music theory and composition. He'd taken a job with ...