Do you read your dictionary?

I often tell learners of English to read the dictionary: it's a great way of increasing your vocabulary - and you often find surprising pieces of information as well, e.g. the fact that flammable and inflammable both mean "able to catch fire (start to burn)".

But here's a guy who has obviously taken this advice a bit too seriously. He read the COMPLETE Oxford English Dictionary (which contains 20 volumes).

Amon Shea from New York said: "All the normal emotions - grief, happiness and loss - exist in a dictionary but not necessarily in the order that you would think."

Read the whole story on the BBC website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7654511.stm