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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is an English word-construction project by John Koenig, seeking to coin and define neologisms for emotions not yet described in language. [1] The project was launched as a website and YouTube channel, but was later compiled into a printed dictionary in 2021. The entries include extensive constructed etymologies ...
MS 408. Evidence of retouching of text on page 3; f1r. Retouching of drawing on page 131; f72v3. The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex, hand-written in an unknown script referred to as Voynichese. [ 18 ] The vellum on which it is written has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century (1404–1438).
039 (Encyclopedias in other languages) The Codex Seraphinianus, [1] originally published in 1981, is an illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world, created by Italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini between 1976 and 1978. [2] It is approximately 360 pages (depending on edition) and written in an imaginary language.
Uncleftish Beholding. " Uncleftish Beholding " (1989) is a short text by Poul Anderson, included in his anthology "All One Universe". [1] It is designed to illustrate what English might look like without its large number of words derived from languages such as French, Greek, and Latin, [2] especially with regard to the proportion of scientific ...
Many undeciphered writing systems exist today; most date back several thousand years, although some more modern examples do exist. The term "writing systems" is used here loosely to refer to groups of glyphs which appear to have representational symbolic meaning, but which may include "systems" that are largely artistic in nature and are thus ...
Väinö Linna, Unknown Soldiers, p. 298, translated by Liesl Yamaguchi in 2015. The novel starts with the company transferring in June 1941 from their barracks to the Finnish-Soviet border in preparation for the invasion of the Soviet Union. Soon after, the soldiers receive their baptism by fire in an attack over a swamp on Soviet positions. Captain Kaarna is killed during the battle and the ...
The New World of English Words. The New World of English Words, or, a General Dictionary is an English dictionary compiled by Edward Phillips and first published in London in 1658. It was the first folio English dictionary. [1]
According to the OED 'apparently of Celtic origin: compare Irish and Gaelic creag, Manx creg, cregg, Welsh craig rock. None of these, however, exactly gives the English crag, cragg '. [14] Celtic (OED1) common. doe. Possibly from a Brittonic root *da-, [15] but could also be from Latin. Latin dāma (OED1) technical.