AMMON SHEA
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I am currently writing a book about reading the Oxford English Dictionary from A to Zyxt. The book is an account of what it is like to read 21,730 pages of the OED as well as a compendium of the most interesting and unusual words that I find therein.
It will be published by Perigee Books in July, 2008.
"A charmingly good-natured and delightfully engrossing tour of the OED. Ammon Shea is the ideal reader that all dictionary editors are secretly writing for. Let him show you around ... you won't regret it."
- Erin McKean
"Ammon Shea has plundered the dark recesses of the Oxford English Dictionary and brought us back lexical gold. If you've ever suffered from onomatomania — and who hasn't? -- READING THE OED will happify you. Not to be a bully-scribbler, but I'm telling you: Don't be a bayard -- read this book!"
- Martha Barnette, co-host of public radio's "A Way with Words"