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

By Ammon Shea

Book information

Publisher
Perigee Trade
Year
2008
ISBN
0399533982, 9780399533983
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
27 MB (28130403 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
240\246
Topic
Linguistics\\Dictionaries
Time added
2018-03-25 03:25:28
Dictionaries;Dictionaries & Thesauruses;Reference;Language & Grammar;Reference

Description

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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