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Oxford English Dictionary

Every word in English, plus the ones English stole/Literature & Writing

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the definitive historical dictionary of the English language. The full second edition contains 21,728 pages in 20 volumes, defines 291,500 entries, and includes 2.4 million quotations. It took over 70 years to complete the first edition. The word with the longest entry is 'set,' with over 430 senses.

Measurements

Weight (20-volume set)62.6 kg
3.5 tenthsMale gorillas
554Sticks of butter

About 138 pounds

Shelf length (all volumes)1.37 m
125Shirt buttons
9.8 billionthsJupiter diameters

About 4.5 feet

Volume height3.1 tenths m
104Snowflake crystals
1.2 tenthsSunflower heights
Total text content540 million B
7,397Copies of the Bee Movie script
1.8 tenthsNetflix movies
180,000QR codes

About 540 MB digitized

Physical volume (all books)5.3 hundredths m^3
10,192Gumballs
5.3Watermelons

20 volumes stacked

Time to compile first edition2.2 billion s
53 billionFilm frames
9.9 tenthsQueen Elizabeth II reigns

70 years (1858-1928)

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