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Reading the OED 4 Aug 2008
Furniture-mover-cum-gondolier Ammon Shea has read the whole of the Oxford English Dictionary (some 59 million words) and written a book about it! Along the way, he rediscovered some beautiful words like hypergelast (a person who won't stop laughing), lant (to add urine to ale to give it more kick) and ploiter (to work to little purpose)
I read the telephone directory once - not much happens, but at the end, a load of Polish people turn up (baddum-tish!).
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