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The Lost Words by Robert MacFarlane forest animals The famously rotund bear isIn 2007, when a new edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary widely used in schools around the world was published, a sharp eyed reader soon noticed that around forty common words concerning nature had been dropped. Apparently they were no longer being used enough by children to merit their place in the dictionary. The list of these "lost words" included: acorn, adder, bluebell, dandelion, fern, heron, kingfisher, newt, otter, and willow. Among the