November 29, 2012   227 notes

Former OED editor covertly deleted thousands of words, book claims

patrondebris:

exitpursuedbear:

An eminent former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary covertly deleted thousands of words because of their foreign origins and bizarrely blamed previous editors, according to claims in a book published this week.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Shocking!

oh, this is traumatic.  The OED has always been one of those things, you know?  That I can count on?  At least they’re working to put them all back now but still …

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    And this is why I will always side-eye anyone who uses the dictionary as a defence for their bullshit -isms.
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    lolol wtf? this is simultaneously awful and hilarious. like, who does that? who just… deletes words from the dictionary?...
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    SEEE. there are people working at the dictionary with agendas. i see you now.
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    THE BOLD AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH SO FUCKING TRUE
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    great, and here i was thinking i had all my innocence shattered already :C
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    word.
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    Prescriptive Linguists are the biggest dicks.
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