Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages by Shea, Ammon

Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780399535055)

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Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages by Shea, Ammon

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

$15.00
Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages by Shea, Ammon

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

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Ammon Shea
ISBN-10: 0399535055
ISBN-13: 9780399535055
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 05/05/2009
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.44w x 0.68d

Review Citation(s):
New York Review of Books 12/18/2008 pg. 77
New York Times Book Review 08/23/2009 pg. 20
By Ammon Shea
By Ammon Shea
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Ammon Shea is the author of two previous books on obscure words, Depraved English and Insulting English (written with Peter Novobatzky). He read his first dictionary, Merriam Webster's Second International, ten years ago, and followed it up with the sequel, Webster's Third International. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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