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acorn, adder, ash, beech, bluebell, buttercup, catkin, conker, cowslip, cygnet, dandelion, fern, hazel, heather, heron, ivy, kingfisher, lark, mistletoe, nectar, newt, otter, pasture and willow
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Landscape by Robert Macfarlane
A list of words removed from the Oxford Junior Dictionary, the OUP felt them to be no-longer relevant to a modern childhood and replaced them with words like attachment, block-graph, blog, broadband, bullet-point, celebrity, chatroom, committee, cut-and-paste, MP3 player and voice-mail.
(via commonorgarden)
I vow now to use these and other nature words relentlessly, especially when children are about and within earshot.
