Margaret Atwood and Andrew Motion are among the authors protesting at dropping definitions of words like ‘acorn’ and ‘buttercup’ in favour of ‘broadband’ and ‘cut and paste.’
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Saturday 17 January 2015
Oxford Junior Dictionary’s replacement of ‘natural’ words with 21st-century terms sparks outcry
Margaret Atwood and Andrew Motion are among the authors protesting at dropping definitions of words like ‘acorn’ and ‘buttercup’ in favour of ‘broadband’ and ‘cut and paste.’
Read more: http://ift.tt/1ubSsNe
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