The man who reads dictionaries

[Tarbicus]

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?.....

[D B Campbell]

I wouldn't read one from beginning to end, but I definitely love dipping into a dictionary at random. You find such fascinating stuff.

[Magnus]

Hmmmm...not much of a plot or story line to a dictionary.

[Ron Andrea]

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:

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Sounds a lot like surfing the web.... lol:

[Ron Andrea]

Actually. only you don't need a computer. :lol:

[Virilis]

Thanks Jim ! I found a new word on my signature!