From the 8/3 Sunday Times Book Review, a review of a new memoir by Ammon Shea chronicling his experience reading the entire Oxford English Dictionary in one year: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/books/review/Baker-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
The review is peppered with examples of a few of Shea's encounters with exotic verba--from "obmutescence" to "petrichor" to "glove"--and is well worth a read just for that. For those interested, Shea's Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages also garnered praise from likes of William Safire and Erin McKean.
--Amy
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