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Words are alive.
Their stories are ours.

Words have pasts. They travel, gather meanings and carry the traces of the people who use them. The Language Idea is a journal about those journeys, and the connections language makes between us.

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Words

Where words begin, the meanings they gather, and the traces they leave behind.

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Language

How words meet and change, helping us name, remember and imagine.

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Falling leaves carry story fragments through a misty pastel landscape

Stories

The histories and journeys behind words, from their origins to their lives today.

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A changing world can be hard to hold still. Words offer a small still life: a glimpse of the hands and minds that shaped them.

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