“What happens to the words that are left out?” “They go back in the pigeon-holes. If there isn’t enough information about them, they’re discarded.” “But they might be forgotten if they’re not in the Dictionary.” He’d tilted his head to one side and looked at me, as if I’d said something important. “Yes, they might.” I knew what happened when a word was discarded. I folded bondmaid carefully and put it in the pocket of my pinny.
