Oxford Dictionaries have come under fire on social media amid accusations of sexism in its example sentences. A Canadian anthropologist tweeted the publisher last week about the sentences - which include 'a nagging wife' for the word 'nagging' and 'her high, grating voice', for 'grating'.
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