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Languages reflect the societies that use them – and English is riddled with sexism Should dictionaries include sexist words and definitions? At university I had a lecturer of medieval language and literature who was so wonderfully idiosyncratic that you will no doubt suspect I have made him up. His name was Alaric. He recited
Beowulf from memory to silence the room and was known to remove his shoes before commencing a lecture. You can find a video of him rapping the opening lines of
Piers Plowman on YouTube. He once took our class to York for the Jorvik Viking Festival, and led us round the medieval parts of the city, explaining the origins of the street names. The innocuous Grape Lane was originally Grapcunt Lane – from the Old English “
Removing bint and bitch from the dictionary would be akin to censorship, says OED
Oxford University Press has been criticised for including the terms as synonyms for woman
10 March 2021 • 9:07pm
The Oxford Dictionary of English includes derogatory terms for woman
Credit: Ian Nicholson/PA
Derogatory terms for women, such as “bint” and “bitch”, will remain in the Oxford Dictionary of English because to remove them would amount to censorship, the publisher has said.
Oxford University Press [OUP] was criticised for including the terms as synonyms for “woman”, and last year updated the dictionary to signify that the words were considered offensive or dated.
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Accsys (Accsys Technologies PLC) is a fast-growing business with a purpose: changing wood to change the world. The company combines chemistry, technology and ingenuity to make high performance wood products that are extremely durable and stable, opening new opportunities for the built environment and giving the world a choice to build sustainably.
Accsys transforms fast-growing, certified sustainable wood into building materials with characteristics that match or better those of man-made, intensely resource-depleting and heavily carbon-polluting alternatives.
The company s primary focus is on the production of Accoya
® wood and Tricoya
® wood elements, as well as technology licensing via its subsidiaries Titan Wood Limited and Tricoya Technologies Limited. Accsys has its head office in London, UK, production operations in Arnhem, the Netherlands, an American office in Dallas, Texas, and is constructing the world s first Tricoya