Ammon SheaAmmon Shea is the author of Reading the OED, 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 contributedto 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. Read More Read Less