Newspeak in Oxford Children's Dictionary

[anthony65]

Every day we seem to get a bit closer to Orwellian reality...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3569045/Words-associated-with-Christianity-and-British-history-taken-out-of-childrens-dictionary.html

Words taken out:

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

Coronation, duchess, duke, emperor, empire, monarch, decade

adder, 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.

Acorn, 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, willow

Words put in:

Blog, broadband, MP3 player, voicemail, attachment, database, export, chatroom, bullet point, cut and paste, analogue

Celebrity, 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

Apparatus, food chain, incisor, square number, trapezium, alliteration, colloquial, idiom, curriculum, classify, chronological, block graph

[tyler]

All of the words taken out relate to my childhood.
They want to take away our culture, history and attachment to our native land and way of life.
Nationalism must go!

Check who publishes the dictionary.

[anthony65]

All of the words taken out relate to my childhood.
They want to take away our culture, history and attachment to our native land and way of life.
Nationalism must go!

Check who publishes the dictionary.

I understand that they have to add new words, but why take out these words?

No more bluebells and brambles? :(

[tyler]

Perhaps the countryside is soon to be out of bounds to most of us proles. We will be confined to the cities as slaves. The countryside will be for the elite and their servants to live in.

Todays children have no need to know about the joys of nature. Those who survive the culling will be automatons.

[tyler]

The structure of Oxford University Press. Run by a clique of Oxford academics who decide what is published and no doubt the content of any dictionaries.

Common Purpose?

http://www.oup.com/about/structure/

[anthony65]

Perhaps the countryside is soon to be out of bounds to most of us proles. We will be confined to the cities as slaves. The countryside will be for the elite and their servants to live in.

Todays children have no need to know about the joys of nature. Those who survive the culling will be automatons.

The liars who promote multiculturism but deny the land to the immigrants!

Whatever their background, immigrants should learn to love the land (the physical, natural envirnoment) in which they live. It belongs to us all!

Nature is beautiful and diverse.

I agree with you Tyler that this is part of an agenda to cut off the "proles" from the land.

[clozaril]

bastards !

had a quick glance through the list and the words taken out are realting to paganism

[anthony65]

bastards !

had a quick glance through the list and the words taken out are realting to paganism

When I read the first list it makes me smile. :)

When I read the second, it makes me cringe... :(

[clozaril]

yeah there are some beutiful words in the first list

[kweli]

Every day we seem to get a bit closer to Orwellian reality...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/3569045/Words-associated-with-Christianity-and-British-history-taken-out-of-childrens-dictionary.html

Words taken out:

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

Coronation, duchess, duke, emperor, empire, monarch, decade

adder, 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.

Acorn, 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, willow

Words put in:

Blog, broadband, MP3 player, voicemail, attachment, database, export, chatroom, bullet point, cut and paste, analogue

Celebrity, 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

Apparatus, food chain, incisor, square number, trapezium, alliteration, colloquial, idiom, curriculum, classify, chronological, block graph

Thanks for posting.

Here's the headlines from that article:


Words associated with Christianity, the monarchy and British history have been dropped from a leading dictionary for children.

Now look at the following article - Radical reforms of the educational system

Traditional subjects go in schools shake-up

Traditional subjects such as history, geography and religious studies will be removed from the primary school curriculum and merged into a “human, social and environmental” learning programme as part of a series of radical education reforms

full article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article5304304.ece

I find these articles very alarming and depressing. :(

[palomino]

25 of the words taken out are food - fresh vegetables
and about 30 are animals

what the?

[americana]

Boycott new dictionaries. Buy your dictionaries at thrift shops, rummage sales, and library sales. Dictionaries are essential, and it doesn't matter if your dictionary dates from a decade ago or several decades ago!

My parents have dictionaries all over the house. There's one for reference on a small table in the hall near our bedrooms, a 2-volume one in the living room, and other ones downstairs, near the computer. And that's just for starters.