Serge Akwei itibaren Asloo, Rajasthan, India

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11/15/2024

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Ammon Shea has done something most of us will never do--read the Oxford English Dictionary from cover to cover in a year, all twenty volumes and 21,730 pages of it. He's brought us the story of this marathon in "Reading the OED," and the result is a verbal feast for anyone who loves words. The tale unfolds in twenty-six chapters, one for each letter of the alphabet. Each chapter opens with a narrative section followed by a selection of some of Shea's favorite words beginning with that letter. Along the way, we learn how his love for dictionaries evolved and how he began collecting them. He had some preparation--reading both the second and third edition of the unabridged Webster's from cover to cover--but hadn't attempted anything of this magnitude. He spent ten hours a day reading, enduring headaches, deteriorating vision and a growing addiction to coffee. We follow him on his search for an ideal place to read. He first tries his own apartment (too many distractions), then various outdoor settings (too many distractions of a different sort) before finally settling into the basement of a university library. His one break during the year? Three days at the conference of the Dictionary Society of North America, of course. What shines through these pages, and makes it such an enjoyable read, is Shea's sheer love of words--unusual ones, obsolete ones, ones with forgotten meanings. Within the 21,730 pages of the OED he found "everything I had ever looked for in a novel: joy and sorrow, laughter and frustration, and the excitement and contentment that is unique to great storytelling." The best proof of that assertion? Once Shea was finished, he decided to read the whole thing over again.

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