In my day, when I didn’t know a word, I had to hunt for it in a big, black, tiny-font dictionary. Of course, kids these days have Chromebooks, iPads and all sorts of other technological devices to ...

Dozens of nature words were removed from the Oxford Junior Dictionary in order to make room for modern technology-related words. While it was noted at the time that dozens of nature words had been ...

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 ...

Oxford University Press has launched "Spell with Pip", a new spelling app for children aged four to eight. The app, priced £2.99, is the first children’s dictionary app developed by OUP and features a ...

Authors including Michael Morpurgo, Sir Andrew Motion and Margaret Atwood have signed an open letter calling for a children’s dictionary to reinstate “countryside” words, warning the rapid decline in ...

"The kids are growing and not knowing how to write their own Yolngu Matha name," laments Jane Miyatatawuy, a former teacher from the Top End coastal communities of Ramingining and Milingimbi. In a ...

A Sydney couple attending a grandparents’ day at elite North Sydney school Wenona last week made a shocking discovery while browsing through a book display: according to a popular children’s ...

Oxford University Press has removed words like "aisle", "bishop", "chapel", "empire" and "monarch" from its Junior Dictionary and replaced them with words like "blog ...

Installation view, Paul Chan, Drawings for Word Book by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Greene Naftali, New York, 2020 (all images courtesy the artist and Greene Naftali, New York) Already a member? Sign in here ...