Charlton Laird bol americký lingvista a spisovateľ, ktorého celoživotné dielo sa sústredilo na anglický jazyk. Preslávil sa najmä ako tvorca štandardizovaného vydania Webster's New World Thesaurus. Svojimi spismi popularizoval lingvistiku pre laikov a jeho príspevky do slovníkov a tezaurou sú dodnes cenné. Jeho prístup k jazyku bol vždy zameraný na jeho pochopenie a sprístupnenie.
Webster's New Pocket Thesaurus The Ideal Portable Companion to Webster's New Pocket DICTIONARY Portable—ideal for school or work Extensive synonym list for thousands of words Designed and edited by the editors of Webster's New World®
A combination dictionary and thesaurus encompasses over 58,000 dictionary entries accompanied by cross-references to thesaurus entries
Organized alphabetically for easy access, a revised edition of the best-selling reference provides synonyms, general words, and antonyms, as well as slang terms, colloquial expressions, technical terms, and the most recent scientific and medical terminology.