18th January Lots of things to celebrate / mark today. It is:- Blue Monday Thesaurus Day Winnie the Pooh Day

Oxford University Press are publishing the world's largest thesaurus. It's taken them 40 years to compile the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, which is published in two volumes, and is 4,500 pages long. It contains 800,000 meanings split into 236,000 categories and sub-categories. But don't worry, you don't have to memorise them all.