Dozens of nature words were removed from the Oxford Junior Dictionary in order to make room for modern technology-related words. The English language, like most living languages, is constantly ...

Dozens of prominent writers, including Margaret Atwood and Michael Morpurgo, have expressed “profound alarm” in light of the Oxford University Press’s decision to drop a number of words associated ...

Words associated with Christianity have been removed from an Oxford University Press children’s dictionary for the United Kingdom. Editors justified the changes by citing declining church attendance ...

For Your Reference Newly updated and attractively organized with easy-to-read pronunciation guides, sample sentences and plenty of pictures, the paper-over-board Scholastic Children's Dictionary ...

Social media posts claim that dozens of nature-related words were removed from the Oxford Junior Dictionary to make room for modern technology-related words. The facts: It's true, but the last change ...

Have you ever read a children's book where the main character is… the book? Dictionary has noticed that even though her pages contain all the words that exist, she doesn't really tell a story like all ...

Margaret Atwood and Andrew Motion among authors protesting at dropping definitions of words like ‘acorn’ and ‘buttercup’ in favour of ‘broadband’ and ‘cut and paste’ “A” should be for acorn, “B” for ...

OXFORD, England, May 28 (UPI) --The publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary dubbed hashtag symbol "#" as the children's word of the year. The Oxford University Press said the hashtag symbol was ...