Have you read the dictionary from cover to cover?
 

Okay.. Yeah, well, I am bored.. :rolleyes:

Just wondering if I am the only one. Of course it was at an
early age and then went on the read the encyclopedias..
I thoroughly enjoyed it.

It certainly help me in many ways including useless trivia
stuffed into the crevices on my mind.. :D

zOOmz

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Certainly not. I did write the dictionary, but I don't read everything I write.

Does a dog return to its vomit?

Signed,
Webster

OED or Webster's abridged?
HOW bored were you???
;)
mini

Some dogs do and then eat it again. :D

Not this one :D :

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Whoa.. :eek: Well, I applaud you for your accomplishment. You must have an unparalleled vocabulary.

Let me tell, you've not really lived until you've read Volume 3 of the Oxford English Dictionary. However, don't be fooled! It's gotta be Vol. 3 of the second edition, not the first. The first edition does not have the complete etymology of "chassis".

Some regard this omission as nothing more than an unfortunate oversight, but they probably failed physics. They also conveniently forget the 1643 "Meeting at Clymadia", where the relative merits of the word "chassis" were debated until the cows started mooing. For it was at this clandestine meeting that the "Society of those Opposed to Unilateral Lubrication for Mechanical Anachronistic Machines", or SOULMAM as it later came to be regarded, that the great Conspiracy to Derive Future Generations of True Generative Roots for the word Chassis, or CDFGTGRC as it later came to be regarded, was first begun.

This issue was finally settled in late 1985, when Professor T. Albright Snagger-Smythe, (not related to Mr. George Hamilton Albrighte Snagger-Smythe of Southhampton, due to the unfortunate presence of an extra "e" at the end of Mr. Hamilton's Albright, or Albrighte as the case may be) decided that those who decreed what they decreed at the SOULMAM confab were just a bunch of idiots, and those unenlightened luddites who belonged to the CDFGTGRC were just a bunch of pussilanimous pussies who were too attached to their mothers for their own good.

Thus, it is because of Prof. T. Albright Snagger Smythe's efforts that we, today, can enjoy a dictionary with the complete generative information for the highly important word "chassis".

One can only hope that the Nobel committee comes to their senses some day and awards Prof. T. Albright Snagger Smythe something really shiny and expensive.

:eek:

Well, I am not a true etymologist but really did read it because I was bored in the 4th and 5th grades. The dictionary I read was *who knows what* edition/version, I actually have my gift tucked into the position of writing things so that any yahoo can read it, such as for software company's help files and such. I did like the dictionary I read because it had a short history of the origin of the word and that is what was most interesting to me.

For instance, I looked it up and it appears that chassis has its origins in old french and latin, respectively.. for frame and box.

Guess I am a lightweight chassis.. :p

zOOmz

damn...that's impressive...i haven't even read a whole book in the last six months

Sure have, the Klingon Dictionary ...

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Re: Have you read the dictionary from cover to cover?
 

nope. :D

Re: Re: Have you read the dictionary from cover to cover?
 

How did I already guess that? ;)

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i can't imagine. -ptth-

when i was in my mid-teens, i read the entire two-volume funk & wagnalls standard dictionary, comprehensive international edition (1973) -- 1466 pages. i've also read the encyclopedias in the set a-z probably more than once. :D

maybe my bad eyesight wasn't inherited. :confused: -ptth-

rotfl @ bardevious

I loved the Oxford for it's great etymology.

Read a lot of a encyclopedia when I was a kid. Some lkids called me the walking encyclopedia. Yupe nothing attracted the babes at age 10 like a big IQ. :)

I started reading the dictionary but gave up after the As. The funny thing was the obscure "A" words I knew and still know.

I've been reading really dry MCP study guides cover-to-cover, if that counts. :p

RD

oh. I think I would rather read the dictionary. You have to try to make sense out of that stuff.. :p Try learning LISP programming or UNIX shell programming. Awk ... Ack..

Sympathies..

zOOmz

Reading one now
 

Im in the middle of the G's but i have to know one thing...






























...did the zebra do it? :lol:

Eww.... no way.

I just checked the price of the Oxford English Dictionary. It's a whopping $1,000 for a 20-volume set, or you can pay $300 a year for an online version. Yikes

rotfl


BTW: I did read my World Book Encyclopedia set from A - Z many years ago:eek: You may think I was really bored, but it was quite interesting.

Sure I have.

We had a children's dictionary which was about two inches thick. I read it when I was eleven or twelve.

Now when people look at my bookcase, they keep commenting that I have an entire shelf of dictionaries. :confused:

it's got all the other books in it, right?

I never read the dictionary, but I tried reading the Bible once. There sure is a lot of "begetting" in that book. Transition is kind of bad too. You'll be reading about one character or group of characters for 100 pages then all of a sudden they jump to someone completely different. It's like reading a Stephen King book.

What if I read voume 3 of the first edition as well as the 4th supplement?

I only read the index of words.

I get the word of the day so I guess about 27 years from now I will have ;)

I never went for the dictionary, but I read the World Book Encyclopedia all the way through. My father told me he'd get me an Encyclopædia Britannica set if I finished the World Book. But by the time I did finish I didn't much care about getting a new encyclopedia and I think my father was pretty happy about not having to spring for it.

I don't tend to be a completest, but I did read the whole Sherlock Holmes collection one summer while in grade school (and then again later) for fun, and Shakespeare's complete works while in college because I thought it was important to know them. Oh yeah, and all the Hardy Boys books when I was a little guy.

I've tried, but I had to give up. It was a bit too wordy and predictable, and plot and character development were severely lacking. I may try it again at some point, but I think I'll wait for the movie version first.

:)


Actually, back in my spelling bee days, I did read the paperback edition of the American Heritage Dictionary. Apparently, I failed to memorize it all, though, since I didn't win the state spelling bee.

I've tried, but I had to give up. It was a bit too wordy and predictable, and plot and character development were severely lacking. I may try it again at some point, but I think I'll wait for the movie version first.

:)


Actually, back in my spelling bee days, I did read the paperback edition of the American Heritage Dictionary. Apparently, I failed to memorize it all, though, since I didn't win the state spelling bee.