Text VIII, for questions from 44 through 47....

Motion and Pybus want to include onomatopoeic words.

Besides being a poet, Motion is also an avid bird watcher. He is looking forward to using skirr in his poems once more.

The word “heather” (line 45) names a sort of gas.

The words “periapt” (line 47) and “griseous” (line 50) are in danger. The former belongs to a game and the latter to the geological world.

If Collins’ editors take into account the last sentence of the text VIII, no archaic word will be spared.