Thy heart with dead, wing'd innocencies fill'd, Even as a nest with birds after the old ones by the hawk are kill'd.

Recently a young mother of four in Northern Ireland, Lisa Saunders, spent some time looking at all the entries in the New Oxford Junior Dictionary and compared it to previous editions noting newly included and removed words.

Here is a list of some of the words removed;
Catkin, brook, minnow, acorn, buttercup, heron, almond, ash, marzipan, beetroot, bray, bridle, porpoise, gooseberry, raven, sycamore, tulip, blackberry, cygnet, porridge, magpie, violet, vine, conker.

Here are some of the words newly included;
Celebrity, tolerant, vandalism, negotiate, interdependent, creep, citizenship, childhood, conflict, bungee jumping, cope, committee, compulsory, democratic, allergic, biodegradable, emotion, dyslexic, donate, endangered, Euro, square number, mp3 player, block graph, attachment, data-base, analogue, voicemail, chatroom and yes, blog.
(actually, "blackberry has been replaced by "BlackBerry" an electronic, hand held device).

Environmentalists of the future need to get out more.