Reading the OED

One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages

By: Ammon Shea

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Paperback | 5 May 2009

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256 Pages

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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 hair-pulling, eye-crossing account of reading every word.

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"Oddly inspiring...Shea has walked the wildwood of our gnarled, ancient speech and returned singing incomprehensible sounds in a language that turns out to be our own." -Nicholson Baker, New York Times Book Review "Delicious...a lively lexicon." -O, The Oprah Magazine

"Readworthy." -William Safire, The New York Times Magazine

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