Title: Fantastic read for armchair etymologists
Product review: This book is an absolute must for anyone with an interest in language.Winchester's telling of the saga behind the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary is at once dramatically engaging and philologically illuminating. The story will open for you exciting vistas in the scholarly world before and after the OED...fascinating stuff.Winchester's style is eminently readable, and his affection for words is abundantly clear. Any wanna-be linguists would do well to read it.Its only shortcomings are (in my opinion) an overly-extended examination of the history of schizophrenia at the end of the story and an epilogue which dragged somewhat.All in all, however, a TERRIFIC read which would be worth anyone's time.
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