Changes

It's a love not just of books but of words too. There is a marvellous piece about the love of long or unusual words - The Joy of Sesquipedalians. It was bred in her though:

Wonderful. The essay's an excellent illustration not just of how words have gone out of fashion but also of the way that language develops. After all, computers have spawned a whole new vocabulary which wasn't even dreamt of twenty years ago.