Any Mad Men fans out there? Did anyone else notice the Compact Oxford English Dictionary prominently featured on the credenza of the new character, British overloard Lane Pryce?
I did. Seeing it had three volumes, I assumed it was older and more British than the two-volume Book of the Month club version I bought as a teenager (shown at right).
But no! The Visual Thesaurus reports that the three-volume set is an utter anachronism -- there was no compact edition until 1971 (the one I have, I assume), and the three volume set is from 1987!
(Via the wonderful Twitter phenomenon thatwhichmatter -- tweeting a half-dozen times a day on the finer points of grammar.)
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
A Book 24 Years Ahead of Its Time
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I thought that was a poorly chosen prop, and wondered, too, about the 3rd volume. Thanks for sleuthing!
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