The words "interdependent" and "common sense" were added to the book and one might wonder why. Incredulous!! The removal of nature related words only deepens and widens the riff between contemporary man and nature. To me, anyone who holds that view is pretty arrogant. So basically, if you're American, you're always wrong.
If a foreigner wants to come to America and speak their language, then for some reason it remains not their arrogance but American arrogance for expecting them to speak English. If I went to another country and tried to live there speaking English, it would be considered an example of American arrogance. One thing we definitely learned from segregation and Apartheid is that policies that require "separate but equal" services do not work out to be equal.
Again, this isn't something you point out. Every school child should be taught English, because not having the ability to speak English makes you a second class citizen, just as not being able to speak Spanish would make me a second class citizen in a Spanish-speaking country. There are many benefits to having a common language. What, because someone talked about something an English (meaning: from England) publisher has done to an English dictionary, you suddenly have to act like this is another example of American Anglocentrism?Įven if by some effort of convoluted logic this were the case, and this was related to this article (and it is not) many poor countries and many countries considered far more liberal than the US have national languages and far more restrictive language policies.
#Oxford dictionaries words blog free
You have the right to free speech as long as you speak English. 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.Ĭoronation, 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.Īdder, 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.Īcorn, 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, willowīlog, broadband, MP3 player, voicemail, attachment, database, export, chatroom, bullet point, cut and paste, analogue.Ĭelebrity, 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.Īpparatus, food chain, incisor, square number, trapezium, alliteration, colloquial, idiom, curriculum, classify, chronological, block graph. "That was because many children lived in semi-rural environments and saw the seasons. "When you look back at older versions of dictionaries, there were lots of examples of flowers for instance," she said. No longer can a child check this dictionary and learn more about the blackberry, dandelion, acorn, heron, otter, magpie, sycamore, or willow.Īccording to Vineeta Gupta, who heads children's dictionaries at Oxford University Press, changes in the world are responsible for changes in the book. To make way for modern tech terms such as BlackBerry, blog, voicemail and broadband, the latest edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary has opted to drop terms pertaining to old nature.
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