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Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
Reading the OED One Man One Year 21730 Pages
Author: Ammon Shea
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780399533983
ISBN-10: 0399533982
Publication Date: 8/5/2008
Pages: 240
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Publisher: Perigee Trade
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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