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

An obsessive word lover�s account of reading the Oxford English Dictionary cover to cover.�I�m reading the OED so you don�t have to. If you are interested in vocabulary that is both spectacularly useful and beautifully useless, read on...�So reports Ammon Shea, the tireless, word-obsessed, and more than slightly masochistic author of Reading the OED. The word lover�s Mou