I often feel that people spend too much attention to words in isolation, and not enough to putting them together with elegant coherence. And there’s a reason why I don’t use words that I’ve found in the dictionary: my vocabulary comes from my general reading, not from reference books. But I’m glad that Ammon Shea spent a year reading the Oxford English Dictionary, since he writes about the experience with wit and passion.

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