By Tom Geoghegan -BBC News Magazine Ammon Shea spent a year reading the Oxford English Dictionary - 20 volumes, 21,730 pages and 59 million words - and he rates poring over a dictionary as enriching as reading a novel. Why?
"Knowing what to call something makes me more aware of that thing. For instance, it's not terribly useful for me to know that [the sound of] leaves rustled by the trees is a psithurism".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7654511.stm
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