I though it might be nice to have a thread that we can take into the summer and beyond, as the Spring thread will soon be redundant.
Please remember not to upload an image in the same post as words or it might break the thread - please add your words by replying to the image.
Thank you.
Yesterday Cinnabar_wing sent me down a rabbit hole when she mentioned this book on the 3 Good Things thread:
https://lithub.com/a-book-to-conjure-nature-when-we-need-it-most/
I then looked at this book:
The reason for the book made me sad:
“When the most recent edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary — widely used in schools around the world — was published, a sharp-eyed reader soon noticed that around forty common words concerning nature had been dropped. The words were no longer being used enough by children to merit their place in the dictionary. The list of these ‘lost words’ included acorn, adder, bluebell, dandelion, fern, heron, kingfisher, newt, otter, and willow. Among the words taking their place were attachment, blog, broadband, bullet-point, cut-and-paste, and voice-mail…."
Please add anything related to nature that interests you.
Thank you.
