A Dictionary for the Times: Oxford Purges Its Dictionary for Kids

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A Dictionary for the Times: Oxford Purges Its Dictionary for Kids
      

Once again running the risk of being suspected of mere partisanship, I call your attention to this news item from England:  Words associated with Christianity and British history taken out of children's dictionary, in the Telegraph.

The Oxford dictionary people are in the pillory, and rightly so, for perpetrating a lexicographic fraud on the schoolchildren of Britain.

"Abbey," "bishop," "saint," "sin," "monarch," "empire," and "devil," among many others -- all are now gone from the dictionary.
         

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