Some things are beyond parody. This is truly the ugly side of academia; one wonders if the people involved genuinely think they’re just being descriptive rather than prescriptive.
I know what I’m going to do about it — firstly, of course, no way no how am I going to buy the OUP Junior Dictionary.
Of course, since I have no need (yet) of a Junior Dictionary (it’s a little advanced for my reading level, let’s be honest), that’s a rather empty tactic.
The other component of my response — well, watch this space for details.
(By the way, thanks to to the Telegraph for providing a comma-separated list of all the omitted words. It made pasting them into the Tags field infinitely easier.)
Leitourgeia kai Qurbana: Contra den Zeitgeist 