{"id":3716,"date":"2012-12-22T23:28:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T06:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=3716"},"modified":"2012-12-24T23:35:36","modified_gmt":"2012-12-25T06:35:36","slug":"words-are-not-the-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/22\/words-are-not-the-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Words Are Not The Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/20\/an-apology-for-the-oxford-english-dictionarys-for-ill-timed-word-of-the-day\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The NY Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>An Apology for the Oxford English Dictionary\u2019s Ill-Timed Word of the Day<\/h1>\n<p><em>By\u00a0<a title=\"See all posts by DAVE ITZKOFF\" href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/author\/dave-itzkoff\/\">DAVE ITZKOFF<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Oli Scarff\/Getty ImagesOxford University\" href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/20\/an-apology-for-the-oxford-english-dictionarys-for-ill-timed-word-of-the-day\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" alt=\"Oxford University\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2010\/06\/11\/arts\/oxfordcampus\/oxfordcampus-articleInline.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"127\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oxford University Press, the publisher of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/oed.com\/\">Oxford English Dictionary<\/a>, has apologized for what it called \u201ca coincidence of the worst kind\u201d after the dictionary\u2019s Web site named \u201cbloodbath\u201d as its word of the day on Tuesday, after last week\u2019s deadly shootings in Newtown, Conn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2012\/dec\/20\/oxford-english-dictionary-word-bloodbath\">The Guardian reported<\/a>\u00a0that a word-of-the-day entry that ran on the OED.com site, defining bloodbath as \u201ca battle or fight at which much blood is spilt; a wholesale slaughter, a massacre,\u201d drew rapid criticism from readers on Twitter, who called it \u201ctasteless and gross\u201d and said it was \u201cin very, very poor taste in light of recent events.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/public.oed.com\/the-oed-today\/oed-word-of-the-day-an-apology\/\">The post at OED.com<\/a>\u00a0said that \u201cwe apologize for any distress and upset caused by what might seem to be a highly insensitive choice\u201d and explained that the word of the day is \u201cselected months in advance by an editorial committee, and is distributed automatically each day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/20\/an-apology-for-the-oxford-english-dictionarys-for-ill-timed-word-of-the-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The NY Times An Apology for the Oxford English Dictionary\u2019s Ill-Timed Word of the Day By\u00a0DAVE ITZKOFF Oxford University Press, the publisher of the\u00a0Oxford English Dictionary, has apologized for what it called \u201ca coincidence of the worst kind\u201d after the dictionary\u2019s Web site named \u201cbloodbath\u201d as its word of the day on Tuesday, after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}