This is the allusionist in which I, Helen Salzman, released the linguistic hounds.

Coming up in today's show, if you think you're being followed, you quite possibly are.

To warm up is some word history.

The Pessaurus sounds like it got its name from a synonym's loving dinosaur, but it comes

from the ancient Greek word the Soros meaning storehouse or treasure.

In the 1590s there were the Sorari, early dictionaries that were treasure troves of words,

but it was celebrity the Soros compiler Peter Mark Roger who first used the Soros as

the term for a collection of words grouped together by meaning.

And since it was first published in 1852, Roger's the Soros has never been out of print.

And in case you're wondering whether there are any synonyms for the Soros in the

the Soros, yes there are, including a new word to me, on a Mastercon.

What does that mean?

The same as the Soros keep up.

On with the show.

What are your top five reasons for visiting a museum?

Lou, gift shop, cafe, fantasy shop, for artifacts I'd take home if I could get away with it.

Oh and edify myself by studying important, beautiful or educational objects.

But what's probably not on most people's list is reading the written caption description

thingies accompanying those objects.

And to think of it, I don't even know the proper name for the written caption description

thingies.

They call text panels, thanks, but there is a variety of text panels so there might be introductory

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