Man reads entire Oxford dictionary
Posted on Tuesday, 7 October, 2008 | 10 comments
By any sane reckoning Ammon Shea is a vocabularian - one who pays too much attention to words.In a single, gruelling year, the sometime furniture removal man, busker and gondolier from New York has read the entire 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary from cover to cover.
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#6 Posted by Alister on 12 October, 2008, 22:22This was quite interesting and ALSO good ADVICE...
#7 Posted by Alister on 12 October, 2008, 22:25Oh, and I don't think NEGATIVELY about this man in ANY WAY. I ACTUALLY think he has done GOOD to teach us a LESSON.
#8 Posted by jesspy on 13 October, 2008, 3:56lol he will probably keep refering to the dictionary for the meaning of words in his book. But after the dictionary i think he needs light reading like this
#9 Posted by Ghost Ship on 13 October, 2008, 20:55I would love to have read this dictionary. It would do wonders for a writer. Never again would one need a thesauraus when writing a story and it would add more depth and meaning to ones literary works because you would have a much more substantial vocabulary and a keener understanding of words. At l...
#10 Posted by Shush_rules on 31 October, 2008, 8:42But see the problem with that is the guy just read a dictionary, his not going to go on and become a best selling author. Therefore his reading of the entire dictionary seems like time wasted as his not really going to apply the knowledge. Eminem at one stage also studied the dictionary to improve ...
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