to be inspired by 21st-century editions of the Oxford Junior Dictionary in which some words like kingfisher associated with nature were omitted in order to include technical terms like attachment, broadband and chatroom.
[5][6] In 2017, Laurence Rose organised a protest letter to the dictionary and it was signed by Margaret Atwood, Sara Maitland, Michael Morpurgo, Andrew Motion, Macfarlane, and Morris.
[2] An exhibition of The Lost Words was held at Compton Verney in 2017, featuring immersive floor to ceiling graphics of the poems and illustrations in the book.
[9] A Welsh language version of The Lost Words 'Geiriau Diflanedig' was published by Graffeg in 2019[10] with author Mererid Hopwood adapting Macfarlane's acrostic spell-poems within Morris' illustrations.
An audiobook of The Lost Words has been narrated by Guy Garvey, Edith Bowman, Benjamin Zephaniah, and Cerys Matthews,[11] with ambient sound recordings Chris Watson.