Sure, there are larger dictionaries, but this was a worrying example of our growing disconnect with nature, being replaced by a virtual world and its vocabulary. Many of the dropped words were those concerning nature: fern, heron, starling, willow and wren, and in their place were words that came with our high-tech lives: blog, broadband, cut-and-paste. The book came about when it was discovered that the most recent edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary had displaced a number of words in favor of more contemporary ones. It also inspires us to get out and explore and counters our distracted state of nature deficiency. In “The Lost Words,” Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris have created a wondrous book that evokes the wildness and beauty of our natural world. The words were those that children used to name the natural world around them: acorn, adder, bluebell, bramble, conker – gone!” They disappeared so quietly at first almost no one noticed – fading away like water on stone. "Once upon a time, words began to vanish from the language of children.
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