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The Dictionary of Lost Words

Williams, Pip

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Williams tells the story of a life, of a woman who inherited a love of words from her father (who worked on the Oxford English Dictionary), and sought to find and keep the hidden and censored words that spoke to her own experiences as she lived through some calamitous events.

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  • Read review by: Daryl M.

    According to their website, the Oxford English Dictionary “is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.” Serially published in portions, or fascicles, the first fascicle, covering “A to...

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