Dictionaries have to move with the times, adding new words and phrases as they become a part of common language, so it’s perhaps no surprise that the Oxford Junior Dictionary has jumped into the 21st century and included “blog” for the first time in its latest edition.
Plenty of other tech words have been added including broadband, MP3 player, voicemail, database, chatroom and cut and paste.
Ironically, a lot of children won’t need to look up the word “blog” in a printed dictionary because they’ll either already know what it is (and probably be running one) or else they’ll use the Internet (via their broadband connection, naturally) to view Wikipedia.
It’s bad news for Mother Nature, with a number of plant and animal species dropped from the dictionary, but I’m sure kids will know where to look if they get stuck.
Oxford Junior Dictionary (via Tech Digest)
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