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Bailey Vogt

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Bailey Vogt is a former National Reporter for The Washington Times.

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In this Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010, file photo, an Oxford English Dictionary is shown at the headquarters of The Associated Press in New York. (AP Photo/Caleb Jones, File) ** FILE **

Petition to ‘eliminate sexist definitions’ from Oxford English Dictionary receives 29k signatures

A new petition approaching 30,000 signatures is calling for the Oxford University Press to remove "sexist" synonyms and example sentences from its dictionary publication. An official with OUP, however, says the petition is somewhat misleading and that at any rate, objectionable terms "will not be excluded from the dictionary solely on the grounds that it is offensive or derogatory."

September 18, 2019