Curated Collections

Exhibitions

Words grouped not by category but by story. Each exhibition traces a historical force -- a trade route, a colonial encounter, a scientific revolution -- through the words it left behind.

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Exhibitions

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Words Featured

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Languages Traced

The Arabic Gift to English

How one language shaped Western math, science, war, and breakfast

10 words

Words Colonialism Narrowed

Borrowed from indigenous languages, stripped of their original meaning

10 words

The Silk Road Spice Cabinet

Ten words that crossed continents on the backs of camels and ships

10 words

Nahuatl to the Global Table

Ten foods and creatures whose Nahuatl names outlived empires

10 words

Japanese Modernity in English

How Japanese words named global arts, media, and aesthetics

10 words

The Persian Bazaar Route

Textiles, foods, and trade words carried from market to empire

10 words

Words for Love

Ten words that prove no language has ever been satisfied with a single term for what happens between people

10 words

More exhibitions coming soon: Maritime Empires, Printing & Translation, Medicine & Myth...