Spring is a great time to introduce children to the natural world, and Norfolk Wildlife Trust has plenty of ideas to help, say Reserves Officer Robert Morgan

English language is a constant war of words, each year many join our common lexicon, others lose the battle, become lost and eventually die.

Dictionaries should, obviously, reflect this and compilers are incessantly reviewing their content.

A decade ago it was concluded that the new edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary would drop a number of words as they were seldom used by children and, as such, didn’t merit inclusion.

Astonishingly, these included plant names such as bluebell, dandelion, willow and bramble.

Just as shocking, animals such as newt, otter, kingfisher and lark were removed. In fact over forty words concerning nature were erased.