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Any of you series winners read the OED cover to cover???
Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 6:16 pm
by 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
Re: Any of you series winners read the OED cover to cover???
Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:10 pm
by 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....
Re: Any of you series winners read the OED cover to cover???
Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:33 pm
by Ben Wilson
I've barely even opened most of the volumes. A project like that would leave my eyeballs in a gooey mess.
Re: Any of you series winners read the OED cover to cover???
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 2:57 pm
by Julie T
Re: Any of you series winners read the OED cover to cover???
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 12:35 pm
by Julian Fell
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....
Re: Any of you series winners read the OED cover to cover???
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 5:53 pm
by Jason Larsen
That even made US news!
But then again, I've known where Oxford University has been for a while now!
Re: Any of you series winners read the OED cover to cover???
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 5:55 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Jason Larsen wrote:
But then again, I've known where Oxford University has been for a while now!
In Oxford.
Re: Any of you series winners read the OED cover to cover???
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:03 pm
by Jason Larsen
So, Kirk, you are smarter than a 10-year old!
Thank Goodness for Noelly Edmonds!
Re: Any of you series winners read the OED cover to cover???
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:04 pm
by Kirk Bevins
Jason Larsen wrote:So, Kirk, you are smarter than a 10-year old!
Thank Goodness for Noelly Edmonds!
I am. Thank goodness for education.
Re: Any of you series winners read the OED cover to cover???
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:11 pm
by Jason Larsen
Thank goodness that question is now in our brains!
Re: Any of you series winners read the OED cover to cover???
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:58 pm
by 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.