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
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