Every home and office has one. But nobody has read more than a few bits and pieces.
Not true. I used to peruse the dictionary and read definitions and etymology of lots of words. I remember [boasting?] to a guy at work that I knew the meaning of every word in my Webster's College Dictionary. Picked it up and challenged me to define "nephrectomy", to which I replied, "Surgical removal of the kidney." He didn't come back. I always get the word origins category on Jeopary!
Every home and office has one. But nobody has read more than a few bits and pieces.
From 1960-1963 I read from front to back Webster's Third International - it was the only book available at my duty station in the U.S.A.F.
Every home and office has one. But nobody has read more than a few bits and pieces.
I've been through every page and looked at every word of Webster's Unabridged. I was making lists of certain words that rhymed, don't ask me why.
Does that count?
My girl friend has claimed to have read both a dictionary and an encyclopedia.