If you think a book about the OED is boring, pick up this book up and let Winchester prove you wrong.

I'm not often left at a loss for words, but this book is stunningly fascinating, to say the least.

The OED used 1,827,306 quotations to help define its 414,825 words. Tens of thousands used in the first edition came from the erudite, Civil War veteran Dr. Minor, from a cell inside the Broadmoor... more

The OED used 1,827,306 quotations to help define its 414,825 words. Tens of thousands used in the first edition came from the erudite, Civil War veteran Dr. Minor, from a cell inside the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum.

It wears its status with a magisterial self-assurance, not least by giving its half million definitions a robustly Victorian certitude of tone.

Just finished. Murder, insanity, self-mutilation, and the OED...

Read a bit more last night when I couldn't sleep. Fascinating what I mis-remember even after 3 readings.

Breezed through 5 chapters today. An elegantly constructed book. #books

Chapter 1: I am in love with Winchester'a style. #books

The Forty Immortals sounds awkwardly like maybe a goth band name. The French are weird.

Nearly finished listening and feeling the urge to speak with a British accent

I read this @ my hammock on the living room with a cold wind in my face.