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Reading the OED : One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages by Shea, Ammon is a humor available to read on EtoBox.
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<b>An obsessive word loverÂ's account of reading the <i>Oxford English Dictionary</i> cover to cover.</b><br><br> “IÂ'm reading the <i>OED</i> so you donÂ't have to. If you are interested in vocabulary that is both spectacularly useful and beautifully useless, read on...”<br><br> So reports Ammon Shea, the tireless, word-obsessed, and more than slightly masochistic author of <i>Reading the OED</i>. The word loverÂ's Mount Everest, the <i>OED</i> has enthralled logophiles since its initial publ
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- Author
- Shea, Ammon
- Publisher
- Perigee Trade
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780399535055
- Category
- humor
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Memoir, Reference
- Rating
- 3.69 / 5 (1,284 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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