Reading the Oxford English Dictionary: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages by Ammon Shea

Reading the Oxford English Dictionary: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages

Ammon Shea

223 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

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An obsessive word lover’s account of reading the entire Oxford English Dictionary, hailed as “the Super Size Me of lexicography.”“I’m reading the OED so you don’t have to,” says Ammon Shea on his slightly masochistic journey to scale the word love...

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funny 33%
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