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Not keen on reading? Do you have trouble finding a novel that arouses your i
Not keen on reading? Do you have trouble finding a novel that arouses your i
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2023-10-17
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Not keen on reading? Do you have trouble finding a novel that arouses your interest? Why not follow Ammon Shea’s example and start reading a dictionary?
Mr Shea owns over 1, 000 dictionaries and he reads them for fun. He recendy spent a year reading all 20 volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary. The dictionary contains more than 20, 000 pages and over 59 million words.
As he read from A to Z, he noted down interesting words in a ledger. This includes words such as “happily”, meaning to make someone happy and "tripudiate”, which means to dance, skip or leap for joy. Mr Shea also kept a diary about this experience, which has since become a best-selling book.
Why did he do this? He claims it was fun. "I’ve always enjoyed reading dictionaries. They are far more interesting than people give them credit for, ”he said.
It appears that it was not his goal to sound more intelligent by using longer and more complex words. "I’m not against long, fancy or obscure words, but I’ m opposed to using them for their own sake, ”he said.
In fact, as a result of reading so many new words, Mr Shea often forgot everyday vocabulary. He wrote, "My head was so full of words that I often had trouble forming simple sentences. "
Mr Shea is not alone in his love of reading dictionaries. Elaine Higgleton, a representative of Collins Cobuild dictionaries, explained that thousands of crossword puzzle and Scrabble fans read dictionaries for fun and to improve their games. Ms Higgleton did however note that, “It’s probably not the best way to learn English, and you’d learn more than you need. “It is not known how many of the 59 million words Mr Shea remembers, but he has certainly made history with his eccentric hobby. [br] In Mr Shea’s opinion, people don’t give dictionaries enough credit for being interesting.
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根据四段末句可知,人们不觉得字典有趣而给它们足够的褒扬。
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