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Nature Words: the Irish for ‘almond’ and a baker’s dozen of related terms Posted by róislín on Sep 18, 2019
(le Róislín) Recently, we’ve been looking at the nature words stricken from the Oxford Junior Dictionary [English] about 10 years ago. As you may recall, words like “acorn” and “almond” were removed from the dictionary and replaced by tech terms like “analog” and “MP3 player.” I’ve posed the question several times now in this…