Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
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Published by Perigee Trade, 2008
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- Title
- Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
- Author
- Shea, Ammon
- Publisher
- Perigee Trade
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0399533982
- ISBN 13
- 9780399533983
An obsessive word lover provides an entertaining account of the year he spent reading the Oxford English Dictionary cover to cover, offering a colorful selection of obscure, hilarious, and offbeat vocabulary gems he discovered along the way.
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About the Author
Ammon Shea is the author of two previous books on obscure words, Depraved English and Insulting English (written with Peter Novobatzky). He read his first dictionary, Merriam WebsterÂs Second International, ten years ago, and followed it up with the sequel, WebsterÂs Third International.
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