Posted on 28/01/06
Spinster? Is that like a knitter?
LONDON -- Until last month, the Cambridge Dictionary defined spinster as a "woman who is not married, especially a woman who is no longer young and seems unlikely ever to marry." That changed on Dec. 21, when the new edition appeared without a word that had dated back 500 years. The editors' snipping of "spinster" mirrored a British government move as well, in the form of the new Civil Partnership Act.
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