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John Simpson: The Word Detective [2016] hardback IBIOG With its distinctive and unsettlingLanguage is always changing. No one knows where it is going but the best way to future cast is to look at the past. John Simpson animates for us a tradition of researching and editing, showing us both the technical lexicography needed to understand a word, and the careful poetry needed to construct its definition. He challenges both the idea that dictionaries are definitive, and the notion that language is falling apart. With a sense of humour, an