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When coral and elephants disappear from the earth

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Straits Times

Publication Date
2016-09-08

Mr Robert Macfarlane, in his book Landmarks, about the connection between words and landscapes, tells a revealing but stunning story about how recent editions of the Oxford Junior Dictionary dropped certain "nature words" that its editors deemed less relevant to the lives of modern children.

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