Now in his third term as IPC president, Sir Philip - a former Paralympic wheelchair basketball player - also wants to see the word disability banished from the dictionary.
It's all a long way from the days of the dictionary's founder, academic Sir James Murray, who was commissioned by the Philological Society of London.
But these are of a different order from plagiarism, which the Oxford Dictionary defines as "taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own".
While checking the results from the preliminary test, officials realized that their official dictionary listed alternative spellings for two of the words.
In some of the most popular group classes, movements have nicknames plucked from the intersection of innuendo and Urban Dictionary.
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Oxford University Press rushed out a statement yesterday after getting a number of phone calls from the media about the future of its famed dictionary.
Robert L. Mack, Gray's definitive biographer, has observed that a recent edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations draws from 15 stanzas and reproduces 13 of them whole.
With his lively writing and cynical humor, this author, a partner in a private equity firm, is a captivating tour guide to a Wall Street wonderland of greed, folly and deceit whose rules seem lifted from Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary.
Such phrases are vulnerable to a dictionary attack based on common phrases taken from the internet.
As I listened, I thought the entire lot of them needed a little help from my dictionary.
Source words were then replaced by target words selected from a dictionary, and their order rearranged so as to comply with the rules of the target language.
The Dictionary, known as DARE, records American speech as it varies from place to place and as it has changed over more than three centuries.
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All that remains of her language is a short passage and a dictionary of a thousand and twelve words listed in hierarchical order, from the most important (Aigonz, God) to the least (Cauiz, cricket).
From there, you can add a note, look up words in The New Oxford American Dictionary, translate through Bing translation or share passages on Facebook or Twitter.
The Physician's Desk Reference has ballooned from a thin volume into something like an unabridged dictionary, with extremely fine print.
And I learned from the Above The Law comments earlier this week that someone has created an entry for it in the Urban Dictionary.
In addition to suing Apple, the defendants from California and Texas named the apps as parties in the lawsuit, including Pandora, the Weather Channel, Dictionary.com, Room Candy (maker of Pimple Popper Lite), among others.
It first entered the Collins English dictionary in 2005 with the definition "the tense final stages of a league competition, especially from the point of view of the leaders".
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