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![]() In April, more than a month before France recognized same-sex marriage, Larousse announced it would amend its definition for the 2014 edition. Shockingly, the OED was beaten to the expositional punch – mon dieu! - by France’s leading dictionary, Larousse. Updates are issued every three months on revisions and additions. The OED continually reviews its wares, anyway, taking a special look at words whose usage is changing. Queen Elizabeth II Herself gave the royal nod, according to the Associated Press.Īlmost as if by command from Buckingham Palace, an OED spokesman confirmed a week later that ‘marriage’ would be examined closely for revision in future editions. Gay-rights advocates argued that both definitions should share top billing, given that England last month legalized same-sex marriage. Its second reference states that marriage can also be “(in some jurisdictions) a union between partners of the same sex.” currently defines marriage as “the formal union of a man and a woman, typically as recognized by law, by which they become husband and wife.’ Begun in 1857 under the auspices of the Philological Society of London, the OED includes 600,000 words, three million quotations and 1,000 years of the English language. In all matters of the mother tongue, the OED rules.
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