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The Dictionary of Lost Words
Ever wonder who gets to decide what words make it into the dictionary—and whose stories get erased in the process? The Dictionary of Lost Words throws you into the dusty, male-dominated world behind the Oxford English Dictionary’s creation, where women’s voices and working-class stories were often just... left out. It’s a story about words, power, and the quiet rebellions that try to fix a broken language.
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