The immediate impression of ‘Dead Words’, is an exploration of words that have been forgotten and are ‘dead’. However, this project instead discovers and defines the wide-spread use of the word ‘dead’ in collocation, compound words and phrases. 'Dead Words' comprises a series of booklets that highlight the progression and development of the word 'dead'. This is a discovery of the connections and variations that have occurred over the ironic lifespan of the word, with the overall theme being time.