PC gone Mad! - Oxford University Press has removed words like "aisle", "bishop", "cha

['orebel]

The big problem isn't these children's dictionaries without the words "aisle" or "bishop" but the absence from bookshops of other "English as-a-first-language" dictionaries which do contain them. And the general failure of schools to teach immigrant children first-language English.

Really? I find it hard to believe there's a bookshop in existence that doesn't carry a dictionary that contains those words.

[Harry Lime]

Really? I find it hard to believe there's a bookshop in existence that doesn't carry a dictionary that contains those words.

Sounds like horlicks to me, too.

[Old Mr Grouser]

Really? I find it hard to believe there's a bookshop in existence that doesn't carry a dictionary that contains those words.

We are talking here about the dictionaries that are on sale in local bookshops, and children's dictionaries in particular.

The publishers aren't charities; they publish for a market, for the people who ready to fork out the money to buy their books.

Dictionaries appropriate to "speakers-of-English-as-a-second-language" are profitable because the same edition can be sold all across the world.

[Catalpa]

Tory paranoia gone mad!
It is not PC. Fortunately in Britain, Christianity is now irrelevant and for most children "bishop" is not among the 10,000 most important words, anymore. It might be relevant to history lessons though, and that comes later.
The Age of Enlightenment moves on, relentlessly, and the superstitious can't take it.............

Christianity is now irrelevant

Millions of British People would beg to differ.

[fionnmccool]

Christianity is now irrelevant and for most children "bishop" is not among the 10,000 most important words, anymore.

It's very relevant for playing Chess, a game which I think should be encouraged.

[Cato]

It's very relevant for playing Chess, a game which I think should be encouraged.

Indeed. It should be compulsory.

[statsman]

It's very relevant for playing Chess, a game which I think should be encouraged.

We could restore the old Indian names though; is the word 'elephant' in the dictionary?

[Astral Peaks]

It means "person with whom you live" in Swedish

And that reminded me of this,
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTv5ckMe_2M]YouTube - NTNOCN - Schoolboy & Headmaster (parrot) - Rowan Atkinson[/ame]

Very on topic, I hope?