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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7654511.stm
By Tom Geoghegan
BBC News Magazine
Ammon Shea
The OED is the Everest of dictionaries
Ammon Shea spent a year reading the Oxford English Dictionary - 20 volumes, 21,730 pages and 59 million words - and he rates poring over a dictionary as enriching as reading a novel. Why?.....
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I wouldn't read one from beginning to end, but I definitely love dipping into a dictionary at random. You find such fascinating stuff.
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Hmmmm...not much of a plot or story line to a dictionary.
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Actually, I often get distracted from whatever I was searching for . . . and find the most fascinating stuff. (Works with either hard-copy or on-line dictionaries. Encyclopedia, too.) :roll:
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Sounds a lot like surfing the web....
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Actually. only you don't need a computer. :lol:
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