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Oxford Dictionaries Scour To Remove Sexist Language

WORDS Posted: March 9, 2020 10:02 am

After a huge project that involved picking over tens of thousands of example sentences, Oxford University Press (OUP) has been quietly replacing hundreds of those that “unnecessarily perpetuate sexist stereotypes” in Oxford Dictionaries, the dictionary source licensed by Apple and Google. Now the example given for anatomy is “people should never be reduced to their anatomies” – and the “lady customers” have been consigned to the past. – The Guardian

WORDS Published: 03.06.20

Read the story in The Guardian Published: 03.06.20

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