https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/16/dictionary-of-lost-words-by-pip-williams-review-a-gentle-hopeful-story The Guardian - Back to home News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle Show caption Book of the day Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams review – a gentle, hopeful story Based on real events, this tale of the OED’s compilation explores how words take on different meanings for men and women Helen Sullivan @helenrsullivan Fri 16 Apr 2021 02.30 EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email In 1901, a concerned member of the public wrote to the men compiling the first Oxford English Dictionary to let them know that there was a word missing. In 1857 the Unregistered Words Committee of the Philological Society of London had decided that Britain needed a successor to Samuel Johnson’s 1755 dictionary. It had taken 40 years for the first volume – the letters A and B – to be published, and now they had only gone and left out a word. The word wa...