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Re-Enchanting Abandoned Language

Re-Enchanting Abandoned Language

The Lost Spells | Robert MacFarlance, illus. Jackie Morris | Anansi International

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Back in 2017, after learning that the Junior Oxford Dictionary was going to be cutting out forty nature-related words and replacing them with words like broadband, cut-and-paste, blog, and attachment, nature writer Robert MacFarlane and illustrator Jackie Morris decided to create something beautiful in response: a book called The Lost Words in which the…

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