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THE POWER OF WORDS

while back, British nature writer Robert Macfarlane (who wrote one of my favourite nonfiction books about outdoor adventure Mountains of the Mind) discovered that the latest Oxford Junior Dictionary was missing a few things. Oxford University Press confirmed that a list of words had been removed.

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