A physicist sparked controversy over how a humble siphon worked when he noticed an incorrect definition in the prestigious Oxford English Dictionary. In 2010, the eagle-eyed researcher spotted the ...

An Australian physicist has found a basic error in the definition of the word 'siphon', which may have existed in dictionaries and text books around the world for ...

Those who take the dictionary to be word-perfect should take the time to look a little harder. It has taken the keen eye of a Queensland University of Technology ...