Thread: Oxford Dictionary to correct 99-year old error
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Old 05-12-2010, 02:51 AM   #1
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Oxford Dictionary to correct 99-year old error
It turns out that in 1911 the Oxford English Dictionary misdefined the scientific principle behind how/why a siphon works. It is only now that the error has been brought to the editors' attention.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05...est=latestnews

I see that the same error is made by dictionary.com

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/siphon
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