Jez Burrows, author of the book Dictionary Stories, searches for new meaning in the lexicon; and Ross Sutherland, of the podcast Imaginary Advice, goes deep into his subconscious to find...well.

Other Allusionist episodes about how dictionaries work are The Authority and Word of the Day.

Dictionaries draw their example sentences from a corpus - here's how the Macmillan Dictionary's corpus works...

Hear the writer Joe Dunthorne try to infiltrate the Oulipo on an episode of Short Cuts.

Oulipo member Anne Garréta's novel Sphinx omits gender.

Daniel Levin Becker's Many Subtle Channels is about the Oulipo and him becoming the second ever American member.

At university, I acted in the Caryl Churchill play Blue Kettle, in which gradually all the words were replaced by 'blue' and 'kettle'. It was moderately fun to be in and I wonder whether it was at all fun to watch.