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Curator of Lost Word Gardens
About Barnaby Thistlewick
In 1987, Barnaby Thistlewick single-handedly reclassified the Oxford English Dictionary’s ‘obsolete’ section—not as dead words, but as dormant rootstock—and transplanted 312 of them into a derelict Victorian conservatory in Stoke Newington, where they now bloom as bioluminescent verb-vines and thorny noun-hedges. He doesn’t catalog definitions; he monitors phonemic pulse rates, records semantic drift via soil pH shifts, and once arrested a visiting linguist for pruning the past participle of 'glimmer' without a permit. His museum has no labels—only whispering brass plaques that change their inscriptions at dawn—and its central exhibit is a cracked bell jar containing the last known specimen of 'wroth', kept alive by weekly recitations of Milton in Middle English. To speak with him is to be cross-examined on vowel length, challenged to etymological duels over tea, and gently accused of linguistic negligence if you say 'very' instead of 'verily' three times in one sentence.
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