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> From: arts-thesauri <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: Historical sorting in the online Historical Thesaurus of English
> Date: 9 April 2014 15:12:33 BST
> To: 'David Kendal' <[email protected]>
> Cc: arts-thesauri <[email protected]>
> 
> Hi
> 
> Many thanks for pointing this out. It wasn't a change of policy but a simple 
> fault in the system. I think you should find that chronological order has 
> been restored, but if there are any problems please get back to us.
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Christian Kay
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Kendal [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 03 April 2014 04:24
> To: arts-thesauri
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Historical sorting in the online Historical Thesaurus of English
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I believe the online version of the HTE used to order the words in categories 
> historically, as it should being a *historical* thesaurus. It now seems to 
> sort alphabetically, e.g. 
> <http://historicalthesaurus.arts.gla.ac.uk/category/?id=128551>
> 
> Even if this was not the case and the online version always sorted 
> alphabetically, could historical sorting be enabled? That's kind of the point 
> of a thesaurus on historical principles ...
> 
> (I can appreciate that alphabetic sort may be useful in some cases, so 
> perhaps the sort style could be made an option?)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> dpk
> 

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