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Book Review of The Dictionary of Lost Words

The Dictionary of Lost Words
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Novel set against the great labor of compiling the Oxford English Dictionary. The daughter of one of the lexicographers becomes fascinated by the many words being excluded, mostly from the spoken vocabularies of women or of the laboring class.