An Apology for the Oxford English Dictionary’s Ill-Timed Word of the Day

December 20, 2012 - 1:53pm — Bibliofuture

Oxford University Press, the publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary, has apologized for what it called “a coincidence of the worst kind” after the dictionary’s Web site named “bloodbath” as its word of the day on Tuesday, after last week’s deadly shootings in Newtown, Conn.

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