J. Davidson - Planet Word

This is a wug (Copyright Jean Berko Gleason)

Akbar the Great (Private Collection/ Peter Newark Pictures/The Bridgeman Art Library)

Wild Boy of Averyon (Science Photo Library)

GB sign language (© 2011 Cath Smith — from the LET’S SIGN Series — www.deafbooks.co.uk)

Abbé Charles-Michel de l’Epée (Mary Evans Picture Library/Alamy)

National Theatre of the Deaf, Connecticut (J. P. Davidson)

Wilhelm Grimm (The Print Collector/Heritage-Images/Scala, Florence)

Jacob Grimm (The Print Collector/Heritage-Images/Scala, Florence)

Dornröschen (Mary Evans Picture Library)

Brüder Grimm Kinder-Märchen (Mary Evans Picture Library)

Grimms’ Fairy Tales (TopFoto)

Kinder und Hausmärchen (Mary Evans Picture Library)

United Nations headquarters (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images)

Turkana Woman with beads (J. P. Davidson)

English and Swahili newspapers (Impact Photos/Alamy)

Turkana teacher and children (J. P. Davidson)

Turkana elder and children (J. P. Davidson)

Akha houses (J. P. Davidson)

Aju (J. P. Davidson)

Akha school (J. P. Davidson)

Boy and girl at Carera (Getty Images)

Funeral procession (Photo by Illustrated London News/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Jonathan Swift (Getty Images)

Lady Gregory (George C. Beresford/Getty Images)

Autograph Tree (Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Abbey Theatre (Hutton Archive/Getty Images)

Ros na Rún (J. P. Davidson)

Irish posters (Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Beowulf (Scala Florence/Heritage Images)

‘Speak French, Be Clean’

Welsh Not (St Fagans: National History Museum)

Irish tally sticks (Science Museum/SSPL)

Frédéric Mistral (© Photos 12/Alamy)

Académie Française (Mary Evans Picture Library)

Book of Samuel (The Jewish Museum/Art Resource/Scala, Florence)

Hebrew Language Council (Scala Florence/Heritage Images)

Ticket to 1908 Yiddish Language Conference

Woody Allen and Billy Crystal (The Moviestore Collection Ltd)

Ludovic Zamenhof (Mary Evans/AISA Media)

Reĝo Lear (Image courtesy of Universala Esperanto-Asocio)

Stephen Fry and Dr Mark Okrand (J. P. Davidson)

Star Trek III (The Moviestore Collection Ltd)

Wilfred Pickles portrait (Photo by Bert Hardy/Getty Images)

Wilfred Pickles cartoon (© IPC+ Syndication)

Queen’s Christmas broadcast, 1952 (Getty Images)

Ant and Dec (Allstar Picture Library/Alamy)

George Carlin (Getty Images)

Hunters and bear (Mary Evans Picture Library)

Deaf Tourette’s (Alistair Richardson)

Mary Whitehouse (Getty Images)

Yes, Minister (Copyright BBC)

The Thick of It (Copyright BBC)

Edward de Vere (Getty Images)

Marie Lloyd (Mary Evans Picture Library)

Max Miller (TopFoto)

The BBC’s ‘Little Green Book’ (BBC Picture Library)

Etiquette in Everyday Life (Amoret Tanner/Alamy)

Legal jargon cartoon (www.CartoonStock.com)

1984 (The Moviestore Collection Ltd)

Guy Gibson and Nigger (Photo by Associated Newspapers/Daily Mail/Rex Features)

Love Thy Neighbour (FremantleMedia Ltd/Rex Features)

Francis Grose (The Print Collector / Heritage-Images)

Costermongers (Mary Evans Picture Library/David Lewis Hodgson)

Only Fools and Horses (The Moviestore Collection Ltd)

Bow Bells (Mary Evans Picture Library)

Tod Sloan (Mary Evans Picture Library)

Round the Horne (Copyright BBC)

Crocodile Dundee (The Moviestore Collection Ltd)

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (Alamy)

I heart NY (Jon Arnold Images Ltd/Alamy)

Homer Simpson (20th Century Fox/The Kobal Collection/Groening, Matt)

Ali G (Tony Kyriacou/Rex Features)

Hip-hop (© Laurence Watson/PYMCA)

Cuneiform tablet (© The Trustees of the British Museum)

Clay tablet (© The Trustees of the British Museum)

Georg Friedrich Grotefend (akg-images)

Jean-François Champollion (IBL BildbyrÕ/Heritage-Images/TopFoto)

Rosetta Stone (akg-images/Erich Lessing)

Linear B (Lawrence Lo, Ancient Scripts of the World, http://www.ancientscripts.com)

Michael Ventris (Getty Images)

Phoenician alphabet (Alamy)

Dead Sea Scrolls (Robert Harding)

Ad from Wall Street Journal

Yigael Yadin (Getty Images)

Stephen Fry with scroll (J. P. Davidson)

Chinese Oracle bones (Getty Images)

Zhou Youdong (J. P. Davidson)

Diamond Sutra (© The Trustees of the British Museum)

Gutenberg Bible (© The British Library Board, shelfmark C.9.d.4)

Caxton Canterbury Tales (Scala Archives)

Café Procope (Getty Images)

Encyclopédie (TopFoto)

Samuel Johnson (Mary Evans Picture Library)

James Murray (By Permission of the Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press)

James Murray and his assistants (By Permission of the Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press)

Library of Alexandria (Alamy)

The Bodleian (akg-images)

Andrew Carnegie (National Portrait Gallery, London)

The Pickwick Papers (IAM/akg/World History Archive)

Dick Turpin (Mary Evans Picture Library/Edwin Mullan Collection)

The Union Jack (Getty Images)

Detective Magazine , The Grange Collection, New York/TopFoto

iPad artwork (Matthew Young)

Mr Yuk (Used by permission from the Pittsburgh Poison Center, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)

Poison cartoons (Jon Lomberg)

Turkana warriors (J. P. Davidson)

Aborigine songlines (Mary Evans Picture Library)

Homer’s Odyssey (Mary Evans/Rue des Archives/Tallandier)

Homer (Mary Evans Picture Library)

Achilles (Mary Evans Picture Library)

Bonnie and Clyde (Warner Bros/ RGA)

William Goldman (Getty Images)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (20th Century Fox/The Kobal Collection)

James Joyce (Mary Evans/AISA Media)

W. B. Yeats (Photo by Spicer-Simson/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Globe Theatre (Süddeutsche Zeitung/Mary Evans Picture Library)

Laurence Olivier (Mary Evans Picture Library)

Stephen Fry and Simon Russell Beale (Sandi Friend)

David Tennant (Donald Cooper/Rex Features)

Mark Rylance (Richard Mildenhall)

Bob Dylan (Mary Evans/Interfoto/Lisa Law)

Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel (Photo by Pictorial Parade/Getty Images)

Crowd singing (Action Plus Sports Images / Alamy)

Wedgwood ad (By Courtesy of The Wedgwood Museum)

Lemon car ad image (Courtesy of The Advertising Archive)

‘Go to work on an egg’, Marmite, KitKat, Heinz ads (Image Courtesy of The Advertising Archives)

David Ogilvy (© Bettmann/Corbis)

Mad Men ’s Don Draper (Amc/The Kobal Collection)

The Hathaway Man (Image Courtesy of The Advertising Archives)

Jesse Jackson (Canadian Press/Rex Features)

Barack Obama (Paul J. Richards/Afp/Getty Images)

Chief Joseph (Mary Evans Picture Library)

Winston Churchill (Mary Evans Picture Library)

Went the Day Well? (Ealing Studios/Ronald Grant)

1984 (Columbia/The Kobal Collection)

Adolf Hitler (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

German Propraganda (Mary Evans Picture Library/Explorer Archives)

Chairman Mao (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

‘Stalin Leads Us to Victory’ (RIA Novosti / TopFoto)