Here's an interesting article in The Guardian:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2227650,00.html

Quote:
From albedo to zugunruhe
How often do you bother looking up an unfamiliar word? Should writers make us reach for our dictionaries? Four years ago, James Meek vowed to learn every alien word he encountered, and discovered poetry in obscurity.


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