Green Options » dictionary http://greenoptions.com/tag/dictionary Posts tagged 'dictionary' Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:04:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Nature Words Dropped From Children’s Dictionary http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/02/02/nature-words-dropped-from-childrens-dictionary/ http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/02/02/nature-words-dropped-from-childrens-dictionary/#comments Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:04:55 +0000 Robin Elton http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/02/02/nature-words-dropped-from-childrens-dictionary/ “Humans seldom value what they cannot name.”   -Elaine Brooks

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 nature.  No longer can a child check this dictionary and learn more about the blackberry, dandelion, acorn, heron, otter, magpie, sycamore, or willow.

 

Why were these words deemed expendable? A statement from the Oxford University Press clarifies: 

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.

I’m sorry, maybe I’m missing something here…but which word does your child use more? Broadband…. or dandelion?

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Image courtesy of ethicurean.com.

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