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John Simpson: The Word Detective [2016] paperback Condition:New Readers love Jan Casey:Language 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