The Condensed OED by Sarah HulseyA dictionary like the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a chronicle of the lexical knowledge in a language community. Though certain words in the dictionary may be unfamiliar, it is estimated that an average adult speaker knows 60,000 100,000 words in their language. This staggering degree of knowledge is acquired effortlessly in childhood and used regularly throughout every aspect of ones life. This piece, The Condensed OED, represents the complex