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1ST DEC 2008
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A man has just completed the very strange task of reading the Oxford English Dictionary cover to cover.
Ammon Shea, who has been dissecting dictionaries since the age of 10, spent a year absorbing the book, from A to Zyxt.
Cooped up in the basement of his local library, he would devote up to 10 hours a day painstakingly making his way through all 20 volumes of the OED - helped by very strong coffee.
Every time he came across an interesting word, he jotted it down, fearful that he would not remember its meaning. Among his favourite discoveries were obmutescence, hypergelast , natiform and deipnosophist.
He admitted there were times when he almost gave up, frustrated at not being familiar with any of the words on the page.
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