Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
- ISBN-10
- 0399533982
- ISBN-13
- 9780399533983
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines
- Pages
- 246
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Ammon Shea
Description
An obsessive word lover provides an account of the year he spent reading the Oxford English Dictionary cover to cover, offering a selection of obscure and offbeat vocabulary gems he discovered along the way.
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