How long does it take to read The Oxford English Dictionary?
R. W. Burchfield
The Oxford English Dictionary by R. W. Burchfield takes about 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1980. 13 pages, about 3,575 words.
1 day at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 24 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
These volumes replace the 1933 Supplement to the OED. The vocabulary treated is that which came into use during the publication of the successive sections of the main Dictionary -- that is, between 1884, when the first fascicle of the letter A was published, and 1928, when the final section of the Dictionary appeared -- together with accessions to the English language in Britain and abroad from 1928 to the present day. Nearly all the material in the 1933 Supplement has been retained here, though in revised form (Preface).
Subjects: Dictionaries, Engels, Dictionaries as Topic, Anglais (Langue), Dictionnaires, English
