Showing posts with label OED. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OED. Show all posts

long poem about everything

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.

undertow of words

James Murray (editor of the first edition of the OED) said he faced “the terrible undertow of words.”