In my day, when I didn’t know a word, I had to hunt for it in a big, black, tiny-font dictionary. Of course, kids these days have Chromebooks, iPads and all sorts of other technological devices to ...

Dozens of nature words were removed from the Oxford Junior Dictionary in order to make room for modern technology-related words. While it was noted at the time that dozens of nature words had been ...

Dozens of prominent writers, including Margaret Atwood and Michael Morpurgo, have expressed “profound alarm” in light of the Oxford University Press’s decision to drop a number of words associated ...

Words associated with Christianity have been removed from an Oxford University Press children’s dictionary for the United Kingdom. Editors justified the changes by citing declining church attendance ...

"The kids are growing and not knowing how to write their own Yolngu Matha name," laments Jane Miyatatawuy, a former teacher from the Top End coastal communities of Ramingining and Milingimbi. In a ...

Authors including Michael Morpurgo, Sir Andrew Motion and Margaret Atwood have signed an open letter calling for a children’s dictionary to reinstate “countryside” words, warning the rapid decline in ...

Oxford University Press has removed words like "aisle", "bishop", "chapel", "empire" and "monarch" from its Junior Dictionary and replaced them with words like "blog ...

Installation view, Paul Chan, Drawings for Word Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Greene Naftali, New York, 2020 (all images courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York) Already a member? Sign in here ...