To make way for modern tech terms such as BlackBerry, blog, voicemail and broadband, the latest edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary has opted to drop terms pertaining to nature.

No longer can a child check this dictionary and learn more about the blackberry, dandelion, acorn, heron, otter, magpie, sycamore, or willow.

Why were these words deemed expendable? A statement from the Oxford University Press clarifies: 

While I can understand adding technology words into the dictionary, I cannot understand taking nature words out, devaluing their relative importance.  Studies already show that children can name more Pokemon than wildlife species.  They need more accessibility to nature names, not less.