Shortly after Richard and I began writing "He Read, She Read" for the Daily News-Record, I chose to review a book by Simon Winchester called "The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary." That book, published in 2003, chronicles the origin and decades-long evolution of "the greatest monument ever erected to a living language."
Now, five years later, the big dictionary is back in the spotlight, thanks to the completion of a quest: vocabularian Ammon Shea spent...
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