A brouhaha has broken out over changes on the vocabulary included in the latest version of the Oxford Junior Dictionary. New additions include blog, broadband, bilingual and biodegradable. Fair enough. But missing from the children’s reference are monarch, duchess and coronation; altar, bishop and vicar; and beetroot, marzipan and porridge. Even moss and fern are gone. OUP points out that today’s UK is much less rural and more multicultural than in the past, and that “We are limited by how big the dictionary can be – little hands must be able to handle it.”