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Dodi Schultz
December 13th, 2008, 03:47 PM
If you're among those Dixonarians who already have a free subscription to
Michael Quinion's e-mailed World Wide Words weekly newsletter (and if you
aren't, you should be), you've heard about the outrage lately perpetrated
by the revered Oxford:

It is no longer considered necessary, at OUP, for children to know such
words as acorn, aisle, cracker, decade, empire, goldfish, ivy, lark, monk,
oyster, pasture, psalm, sin, spinach, thrush, or vine (the list is
lengthy). Instead, it is now considered imperative for youngsters to be
familiar with, among others, broadband, bullet point, bungee jumping,
curriculum, dyslexic, and Euro.

Link to the story (in the 8 December Telegraph):

http://wwwords.org?ODRW

Site for subscriptions to (as well as searchable back issues of) the
aforementioned newsletter, which covers both BrE and AmE:

http://www.worldwidewords.org/

--Dodi

France International
December 15th, 2008, 11:41 AM
Sunday's Bizarro cartoon is apropos.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/comics/king.html?name=Bizarro&date=20081213

--Mike
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From: "Dodi Schultz" <SCHULTZ (AT) compuserve (DOT) com>
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Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2008 4:47 PM
Subject: [Dixonary] Slightly OT: What's next? "Book"?


>
>
> If you're among those Dixonarians who already have a free subscription to
> Michael Quinion's e-mailed World Wide Words weekly newsletter (and if you
> aren't, you should be), you've heard about the outrage lately perpetrated
> by the revered Oxford:
>
> It is no longer considered necessary, at OUP, for children to know such
> words as acorn, aisle, cracker, decade, empire, goldfish, ivy, lark, monk,
> oyster, pasture, psalm, sin, spinach, thrush, or vine (the list is
> lengthy). Instead, it is now considered imperative for youngsters to be
> familiar with, among others, broadband, bullet point, bungee jumping,
> curriculum, dyslexic, and Euro.
>
> Link to the story (in the 8 December Telegraph):
>
> http://wwwords.org?ODRW
>
> Site for subscriptions to (as well as searchable back issues of) the
> aforementioned newsletter, which covers both BrE and AmE:
>
> http://www.worldwidewords.org/
>
> --Dodi
>

Dodi Schultz
December 15th, 2008, 07:00 PM
>> Sunday's Bizarro cartoon is apropos.
>>
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/comics
>> /king.html?name=Bizarro&date=20081213

It is indeed! Thanks, Mike.

--Dodi