This
blog and my books contain a great deal of information on the changes
which communications over the Internet have manifested. Some of these
are temporary and others will be far-reaching. Most of us understand
that once words make it into a respected dictionary, they have
essentially been accepted.
Below is a nice article showing what the children's dictionaries of the Oxford University Press have done. Which other words do you believe will make it into these pages?
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Below is a nice article showing what the children's dictionaries of the Oxford University Press have done. Which other words do you believe will make it into these pages?
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Natural world words removed from
children's dictionary for computer and internet terms
By Gloucestershire
Echo | Posted: March 01, 2015
The new edition of the Oxford Junior
dictionary has deleted a whole host of words, many of them related to the
natural world and the environment to make room for technological terms.
Children will no longer be able to look
up the spelling and meaning of words like blackberry, ash, beech, minnow. And
also taken out are heraldic words such as coronation, duchess, emperor, duke,
monarch and minister.
Replacing them are a whole host of
terms from the virtual world of computers and the internet: block-graph, blog,
MP3 player, database and attachment. Oh, and celebrity.
According to Vineeta Gupta, who heads
children’s dictionaries at Oxford University Press, changes in the world are
responsible for changes in the book. “When you look back at older versions of
dictionaries, there were lots of examples of flowers for instance,” she said.
“That was because many children lived in semi-rural environments and saw the
seasons. Nowadays, the environment has changed.”
The 10,000 words and phrases in the
junior dictionary were selected using several criteria, including how often
words would be used by young children.
Words taken out:
Coronation, duchess, duke, emperor,
empire, monarch, decade, carol, cracker, holly, ivy, mistletoe, dwarf, elf,
goblin, abbey, aisle, altar, bishop, chapel, christen, disciple, minister,
monastery, monk, nun, nunnery, parish, pew, psalm, pulpit, saint, sin, devil,
vicar.
Adder, ass, beaver, boar, budgerigar,
bullock, cheetah, colt, corgi, cygnet, doe, drake, ferret, gerbil, goldfish,
guinea pig, hamster, heron, herring, kingfisher, lark, leopard, lobster,
magpie, minnow, mussel, newt, otter, ox, oyster, panther, pelican, piglet,
plaice, poodle, porcupine, porpoise, raven, spaniel, starling, stoat, stork,
terrapin, thrush, weasel, wren.
Acorn, allotment, almond, apricot, ash,
bacon, beech, beetroot, blackberry, blacksmith, bloom, bluebell, bramble, bran,
bray, bridle, brook, buttercup, canary, canter, carnation, catkin, cauliflower,
chestnut, clover, conker, county, cowslip, crocus, dandelion, diesel, fern,
fungus, gooseberry, gorse, hazel, hazelnut, heather, holly, horse chestnut,
ivy, lavender, leek, liquorice, manger, marzipan, melon, minnow, mint, nectar,
nectarine, oats, pansy, parsnip, pasture, poppy, porridge, poultry, primrose,
prune, radish, rhubarb, sheaf, spinach, sycamore, tulip, turnip, vine, violet,
walnut, willow
Words put in:
Blog, broadband, MP3 player, voicemail,
attachment, database, export, chatroom, bullet point, cut and paste, analogue.
Celebrity, tolerant, vandalism,
negotiate, interdependent, creep, citizenship, childhood, conflict, common
sense, debate, EU, drought, brainy, boisterous, cautionary tale, bilingual,
bungee jumping, committee, compulsory, cope, democratic, allergic,
biodegradable, emotion, dyslexic, donate, endangered, Euro.
Apparatus, food chain, incisor, square
number, trapezium, alliteration, colloquial, idiom, curriculum, classify,
chronological, block graph======================================================
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