London: In an extraordinary feat, an Indian youth has created a record by memorising the entire Oxford dictionary.

Lucknow-based Mahaveer Jain remembers all the 80,000 individual entries in the Oxford advanced learner's dictionary, along with their sequence and page numbers, according to Asianet news service.

The engineering graduate's feat has earned him a place in the Limca book of records, Indian version of the Guinness book of world records, it said.

"It's an incredible achievement. Our editors are constantly revising and re-editing the Oxford advanced learner's dictionary to keep it up-to-date. Amazing as it seems, Mr Jain probably knows the dictionary even better than an Oxford editor," Asianet quoted Moira Runcie, editorial director of dictionaries at the Oxford university press as saying.

"It's certainly quite a feat. In fact, it gives 'memory' a whole new definition," Sally Wehmeier, editor of the Oxford advanced learner's dictionary, was quoted as saying.

PTI