Reading the OED

Reading the OED
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : 0399533982
ISBN-13 : 9780399533983
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Book Synopsis Reading the OED by : Ammon Shea

Download or read book Reading the OED written by Ammon Shea and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An obsessive word lover provides an account of the year he spent reading the Oxford English Dictionary cover to cover, offering a selection of obscure and offbeat vocabulary gems he discovered along the way.


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