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Reading the OED |
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| Book: Paperback | 8.26 x 5.23in | 256 pages | ISBN 9780399535055 | 05 May 2009 | Perigee | 18 - AND UP |
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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.
“Oddly inspiring...Shea has walked the wildwood of our gnarled, ancient speech and returned singing incomprehensible sounds in a language that turns out to be our own.”
—Nicholson Baker, New York Times Book Review
“Delicious…a lively lexicon.”
—O, The Oprah Magazine
“Readworthy.”
—William Safire, The New York Times Magazine
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