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Former Oxford dictionary editor secretly
deleted words
Wednesday November 28, 2012 07:44:44 PM,
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London: A former
editor of the Oxford English Dictionary tried to rewrite the
dictionary by deleting thousands of words with foreign roots, a
new book claims.
Deleted words include "balisaur", a badger-like animal from India,
"Danchi", a Bengali plant and "boviander", the name in British
Guyana for a person of mixed race living on the river banks, the
Daily Mail reported Tuesday.
The OED is now re-examining words removed by Robert Burchfield who
edited the respected dictionary during the 1970s and '80s and who
died in 2004 aged 81.
Burchfield has long been considered the editor who opened up the
English dictionary to the wider world, until now, according to the
Mail.
Sarah Ogilvie, also a former OED editor, in her new book "Words of
the World" reveals how Burchfield started a rumour that his
earlier editors of the OED were inward-looking anglocentrics, when
in fact the opposite was true and it was Burchfield himself who
was deleting foreign words.
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