Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
Perigee Trade, July 2008. Hardcover. An obsessive word loveras account of reading the Oxford English Dictionary cover to cover. aIam reading the OED so you donat have to. If you are interested in vocabulary that is both spectacularly useful and beautifully useless, read on...a So reports Ammon Shea, the tireless..... More