Comments on: Mom, What’S a Gerbil?: Oxford Junior Dictionary Omits “Nature Words”, Puts in More Tech Ones http://technabob.com/blog/2009/02/04/mom-whats-a-gerbil-oxford-junior-dictionary-omits-nature-words-puts-in-more-tech-ones/ Cool Gadgets, Gizmos, Games and Weird Science Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:26:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: TravisO http://technabob.com/blog/2009/02/04/mom-whats-a-gerbil-oxford-junior-dictionary-omits-nature-words-puts-in-more-tech-ones/comment-page-1/#comment-20350 TravisO Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:05:54 +0000 http://technabob.com/blog/?p=8572#comment-20350 So basically they want to gain some of the readership from Wikipedia because more people look up tech words than traditional words? Have they even thought about the fact that people use Wikipedia because they're on the computer already, reading an article or news source. Sorry Oxford, the day of going to get a book on your bookshelf to look up a subject is dead. So basically they want to gain some of the readership from Wikipedia because more people look up tech words than traditional words?

Have they even thought about the fact that people use Wikipedia because they’re on the computer already, reading an article or news source.

Sorry Oxford, the day of going to get a book on your bookshelf to look up a subject is dead.

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