Don't you love the Oxford dictionary? When I first read it I thought it was a really long poem about everything.
—David Bowie, BowieNet LiveChat, 4/27/1999.
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long poem about everything
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undertow of words
James Murray (editor of the first edition of the OED) said he faced “the terrible undertow of words.”
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