Any of you series winners read the OED cover to cover???

[Julie T]

I read this article in The Times yesterday:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/ ... 878295.ece




I suppose if anyone can understand him doing this, members of this forum can. I certainly wouldn't have the patience, even if I had the uninterrupted time.

I particularly like the words mentioned:

Somnificator(n) one who induces sleep in others
Unbepissed(adj) not having been urinated on; unwet with urine

[Chris Corby]

When I was at school and studying Drama, I was going to make the OED into a stage production but my teacher thought it would just be a play on words....

[Ben Wilson]

I've barely even opened most of the volumes. A project like that would leave my eyeballs in a gooey mess.

[Julie T]

When I was at school and studying Drama, I was going to make the OED into a stage production but my teacher thought it would just be a play on words....

[Julian Fell]

When I was at school and studying Drama, I was going to make the OED into a stage production but my teacher thought it would just be a play on words....

[Jason Larsen]

That even made US news!

But then again, I've known where Oxford University has been for a while now!

[Kirk Bevins]

But then again, I've known where Oxford University has been for a while now!

In Oxford.

[Jason Larsen]

So, Kirk, you are smarter than a 10-year old!

Thank Goodness for Noelly Edmonds!

[Kirk Bevins]

So, Kirk, you are smarter than a 10-year old!

Thank Goodness for Noelly Edmonds!

I am. Thank goodness for education.

[Jason Larsen]

Thank goodness that question is now in our brains!

[Derek Hazell]

The copyright library I was working at was complaining that they were running out of space. So I wrote a letter to the staff magazine suggesting that they get rid of all of the books, and just keep the largest dictionary, as basically every other book is just the dictionary in a different order.
The letter didn't get published.