Margaret Atwood and Andrew Motion among authors protesting at dropping definitions of words like ‘acorn’ and ‘buttercup’ in favour of ‘broadband’ and ‘cut and paste’ “A” should be for acorn, “B” for ...

In the early nineteen-sixties, a passel of newspapers and magazines mounted a cultural jihad against a dictionary. The book in question was Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, ...

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 ...