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Ammon Shea

Bio

Ammon Shea is the author of Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages along with Depraved English, Insulting English, and The Phone Book. A dictionary collector, he has worked as a consulting editor of American dictionaries at Oxford University Press. He has also contributed to the "On Language" column in Sunday's New York Times and has reviewed language books for the New York Times Book Review. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Ammon Shea Books

Depraved English book cover

Depraved English

Peter Novobatzky
Bad English book cover

Bad English

Ammon Shea
The Phone Book book cover

The Phone Book

Ammon Shea
Reading the OED book cover

Reading the OED

Ammon Shea
Insulting English book cover

Insulting English

Peter Novobatzky
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