Schott's Significa

An Unexpectedly Essential Guide to Language

By: Ben Schott

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Hardcover | 28 October 2025 | Edition Number 1

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Schott is back – and better than ever! From the mind that created the million-copy selling Schott’s Original Miscellany comes Schott's Significa: an indispensable field guide to the hidden lore and language of our modern age.

A language taxonomy for our curious times. Every day we are surrounded by complex, private systems of knowledge and language: some we use ourselves, others we observe or overhear. Every trade, gang, clique, and profession develops a private lexicon of words, signs, and signals to bind its members closer while keeping strangers out. From dog-walkers to spies, sommeliers to gym-goers, typography to graffiti, Schott's Significa decodes the secret languages that surround us. Packed with analysis exploring these taxonomies in all their fascinating detail, photographs and illustrations, this book is a dynamic evolution of the Miscellany concept for our curious times and the key to unlocking the hidden worlds around us.

About the Author

Ben Schott is the author of Schott's Original Miscellany and its four sequels, which have been translated into twenty-one languages; six volumes of the yearbook Schott's Almanac; and Schottenfreude. He divides his time between London and New York.

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