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The OUP said its review has developed into an ongoing project to re-examine our treatment of language, with recent work undertaken around race and racial diversity and on the use of “they” as a pronoun for people whose gender identity is neither exclusively male nor female.FlDOMI MINA 1 Jnvs TIO 1 riLLV MEA ,1 S3Bdks» “This independent editorial approach means that our dictionaries provide an accurate representation of language, even where it means recording senses and example uses of words that are offensive or derogatory, and which we wouldn’t necessarily employ ourselves.” This is driven solely by evidence of how real people use English in their daily lives. She contrasted this to the classification of the word dickhead – defined “as a stupid, irritating, or ridiculous man” – which is considered “vulgar slang” and not included in the list of synonyms for men.Īn OUP spokeswoman said their dictionaries “reflect, rather than dictate, how language is used. In the scholarship of the time this earliest stage of English was in fact usually considered to be a. “It is respecting their love and unions,” she added.īut she remained “disappointed” that the word bitch – defined as a “spiteful, unpleasant, or disliked woman” – continued to be listed as a synonym, albeit now labelled as “offensive”. When plans for what became known as the Oxford English Dictionary were being drawn up in the late 1850s, it was a commonly held view that the borderline between Old English and later forms of English should be regarded as 1250, rather than 1150. She said the inclusion of gender-neutral terminology in the dictionaries’ relationship examples marked “a huge step forward for the LGBTQI people”. Maria Beatrice Giovanardi, who started the petition, which has reached 30,000 signatures, was “very happy” with the changes and felt the campaign had achieved 90% of its aims. And that should be explained clearly in the dictionary entry used to describe us,” it read. This Hebrew-English English Hebrew dictionary contains 80,000 entries, 18,00 idioms and expressions and notes on English Grammar and other useful appendixes. It is but one sad, albeit extremely damaging, example of everyday sexism. It is dehumanising to call a woman a bitch. The leaders of Women’s Aid and the Women’s Equality party threw their weight behind the campaign this year on International Women’s Day, by signing an open letter calling on OUP to change the “sexist” definitions.
It also demanded that the entry of “woman” be enlarged and include examples representative of minorities such as transgender women and lesbian women. The petition called for all phrases and definitions that “discriminate and patronise” or “connote men’s ownership” of women to be eliminated. Another spoke of “male fisherfolk who take their catch home for the little woman to gut”.
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“Ms September will embody the professional yet sexy career woman,” read one example. The review was triggered following a petition last year criticising the dictionaries’ inclusion of bitch, bint, wench and other offensive remarks, among its list of synonyms for women.Ĭampaigners argued that the examples the dictionaries offered for “man” were also much more exhaustive than those for “woman” and presented women as “subordinate or “an irritation”. Labels have been applied to terms identified as “derogatory”, “offensive” or “dated”, such as the word “bitch” and “bint”, which are listed as synonyms for the word woman.Īn OUP spokeswoman said the changes were made after its dictionary compilers undertook an “extensive review” of entries “for ‘woman’ and many other related terms”. The entry for “man” has also been amended to include the same gender-neutral terminology, while many other terms relating to sexual attractiveness and activity have been revised.
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