Dialects: the Power of Forgotten Words

How these lost vernacular languages are rooted in ancestry and the land

I am interested in the things culture has discarded. Ideas, artefacts, languages or beliefs that have fallen out of fashion or been superseded by more contemporary variants. Out-of-print books, for example, by their very status as cultural castaways, possess a strange mystique: beside functioning as windows into a world that is not-this-one, they are tr…