Gord Barentsen Posted January 8, 2018 Share Posted January 8, 2018 I am still finding this hard to believe, but here it is: https://www.change.org/p/oxford-university-press-nature-related-words-should-be-reinstated-in-the-junior-oxford-english-dictionary When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book? -- Lichtenberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gord Barentsen Posted April 29, 2018 Author Share Posted April 29, 2018 Since I'm revisiting this for my CPRG talk I thought I'd include a Guardian article that goes into more details about the changes, which were in fact made way back in 2007 but have only recently attracted scrutiny: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/13/oxford-junior-dictionary-replacement-natural-words as well as the Snopes article which researches and verifies this as true: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/oxford-junior-dictionary-words/ The Snopes article has some more lengthy quotes from some of the authors who protested the decision, as well as the "justification" (laughable if you ask me) for the changes. When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book? -- Lichtenberg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Barnett Posted June 15, 2018 Share Posted June 15, 2018 well i'll never have any use for "lark" or "kingfisher" or the like but i do think its a shame that they are no longer included. just because im a city bloke with no knowledge of nature doesn't mean the children of the future should be.. 'That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.' - George Carlin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chacheng Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 this is sooo typical of the world we live in....either way I think Nature will roll over us whether or not we respect it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Barnett Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 @chacheng OK but if we're part of Nature than maybe we can change this? steer Nature in other directions? 'That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.' - George Carlin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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