my purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour.

[kayselkiemoon]

I was reading this week's NEWS of the WEIRD, and found a story about the Oxford Junior Dictionary under the heading of "Questionable Judgments". I'm two months behind, here, but I do think it is interesting, so let's go to the source, The Telegraph, and the 12/8/2008 article- "Oxford University Press has removed words like "aisle", "bishop", "

Comments

[ashnistrike]

My reactions, possibly biased by my weird upbringing:

Shouldn't a 7-year-old have graduated to the grown-up dictionary?

Shouldn't an abridged dictionary contain words that you're likely to have to look up, rather than those you're already intimately familiar with?

[toedancr05]

my students use the dictionary primarily as a hard surface when we sit around the room and peer-edit papers...
otherwise, it's used to look up words i refuse to spell for them.