[PDF.46lp] Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages

Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages

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 | #746200 in Books |  2009-05-05 |  2009-05-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.30 x.70 x5.50l,.48 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Exploring the OED: One man's word travels,|By Sharon Isch|If you count browsing through word books among your favorite time-killers ... If you watch "My Fair Lady" more for Rex Harrison's role than Audrey Hepburn's ... If, when culling your shelves to make room for more books, it's the word books that are the last to go ... if you think Ammon Shea's idea of spending a whole yea|From Booklist|Shea’s engougement (“irrational fondness”) for dictionaries led him to spend a year reading through all 20 volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary, and he describes this accou

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 lover's Mount Everest: the Oxford English Dictionary. In 26 chapters filled with sharp wit, sheer delight, and a documentarian's keen eye, Shea shares his year inside the OED, delivering a ...

You easily download any file type for your device.Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages   |  Ammon Shea. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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