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Oxford Dictionary updates definition of woman, labels synonym 'b**ch' as offensive
short by Daisy Mowke / on Sunday, 8 November, 2020
Oxford University Press has updated its dictionaries' definitions of 'woman' following a review triggered by equality campaigners. Among the updates is the acknowledgement that a woman can be "a person's wife, girlfriend, or female lover", rather than only a man's. Labels have been applied to terms identified as 'derogatory' or 'offensive', such as 'b**ch', listed as synonym for woman.
read more at The Guardian