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Oxford Dictionary culls hundreds of words
Published: 08 December, 2008, 19:39
Words linked to Christianity, the monarchy, British history and nature have been dropped from a leading dictionary for children. Among the entries that disappeared from the latest edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary are ‘disciple’, ‘bishop’, ‘chapel’,
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Well just like words have to move on (although why they would want to remove so many words based on nature I'll leave to the conspiracy theorists) perhaps kids should move on from printed dictionaries and start using some of the more complete online dictionaries.