When I grew up I wanted to be Susie Dent, but the job was already taken, still is. So if you are like me and love the history and origins of language I thought I’d share this interesting [and short] article I found on the BBC Culture pages this week.
Sculpting a vocabulary to describe the surreal
The article is written by Kelly Grovier citing examples from George Eliot, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë and Dorothy Wordsworth.
Kelly Grovier explores how at times of crisis in the past, writers coined words to describe our lives and asks us how we will reinvigorate our lexicon to describe the surreal realities defining these tense and trying times.
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