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Talk:Liberal Bias in Popular Dictionaries (view source)
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: For both public editions of the OED I have (both the paper copy and the free online copy)this article is true. I see no evidence of your claims RobertWDP since the source you cited requires you to pay to view! Surley the editions that most of the general public will see are the most influential ones and thus any bias in them will have a greater effect. [[User:GFasten|GFasten]] 11:22, 1 March 2009 (EST)
: For both public editions of the OED I have (both the paper copy and the free online copy)this article is true. I see no evidence of your claims RobertWDP since the source you cited requires you to pay to view! Surley the editions that most of the general public will see are the most influential ones and thus any bias in them will have a greater effect. [[User:GFasten|GFasten]] 11:22, 1 March 2009 (EST)
::My apologies for the citation in question, I had forgotten that access was via subscription. However, although you may well be right that most people will see other versions, the actual question of why there would be 'liberal bias' in dictionaries is not addressed. Personally it seems like a very odd claim, nowhere is there any explanation as to why the OED of all things would be 'liberally biased' and this of course feeds back into my point regarding the definition of 'liberal' and 'conservative'. Also, the article only looks at a very few, very specific examples and it seems ludicrous to base claims of bias on just these few. There may well be definitions that would appear to be 'pro-conservative' for example. [[User:RobertWDP|RobertWDP]] 11:35, 1 March 2009 (EST)