Any of you series winners read the OED cover to cover???
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Any of you series winners read the OED cover to cover???
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
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
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Re: Any of you series winners read the OED cover to cover???
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....
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Re: Any of you series winners read the OED cover to cover???
I've barely even opened most of the volumes. A project like that would leave my eyeballs in a gooey mess.
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Chris Corby wrote: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....
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Re: Any of you series winners read the OED cover to cover???
Chris Corby wrote: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....
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Re: Any of you series winners read the OED cover to cover???
That even made US news!
But then again, I've known where Oxford University has been for a while now!
But then again, I've known where Oxford University has been for a while now!
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In Oxford.Jason Larsen wrote: But then again, I've known where Oxford University has been for a while now!
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So, Kirk, you are smarter than a 10-year old!
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Thank Goodness for Noelly Edmonds!
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I am. Thank goodness for education.Jason Larsen wrote:So, Kirk, you are smarter than a 10-year old!
Thank Goodness for Noelly Edmonds!
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Thank goodness that question is now in our brains!
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Re: Any of you series winners read the OED cover to cover???
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.
The letter didn't get published.
Living life in a gyratory circus kind of way.