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Joel A

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Newsie IRL, lifelong reader, tea drinker.

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Joel A's books

The Dictionary of Lost Words (Paperback, 2022) 5 stars

In 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is …

A nice meditation on words and their meaning and ownership

5 stars

A look at the women behind (literally, last in line) the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, and the various ways their words and lives are ignored.