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All language is a popularity contest.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Contest Language Popularity

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What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: English How Interested People Reading Writing

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Language is a nice way to remember things.

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Topics: Language Nice Nice Way Remember Things Way

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If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: About Doing Job Most Noticeable Novelty Them Then Thing Will Words

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It's difficult to choose a Word of the Year in the year that you're in. It's one of those things that hindsight makes more apparent. It's like looking at pictures from 10 years ago, and you notice the flannel and the ripped jeans. At the time, it didn't look to you like a real fashion trend.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Apparent Choose Difficult Fashion Hindsight Jeans Like Look Looking Makes More Notice Pictures Real Ripped Things Those Time Trend Word Year Years Years Ago You

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I think we would all like to believe that every new event demands a new word. But we're environmentally conscious with our words. We recycle words we've got.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Believe Conscious Demands Environmentally Event Every Got Like New Our Recycle Think Word Words Would I Think

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Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance themselves from criticism, run the risk of creating doubt where perhaps none would have naturally arisen.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Arisen Creating Criticism Distance Doubt Hedge Hoping Informal Know Naturally None Perhaps Real Risk Run Themselves Unfamiliar Use Where Who Word Words Would Writers

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Part of the joy and pleasure of English is its boundless creativity: I can describe a new machine as bicyclish, I can say that I'm vitamining myself to stave off a cold, I can complain that someone is the smilingest person I've ever seen, and I can decide, out of the blue, that 'fetch' is now the word I want to use to mean 'cool.'

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Blue Boundless Cold Complain Cool Creativity Decide Describe English Ever Fetch Joy Machine Mean Myself New Now Off Out Part Person Pleasure Say Seen Someone Use Want Word I Can

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Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so they flip the book over, then go to the back, and it says, 'Over 250,000 entries.' And they go, 'Great, this dictionary must be awesome!'

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Awesome Back Book Consumers Deciding Dictionary Flip Go Good Great Metric Most Must Over Says Then Use Want Whether

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There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Any Because Dictionary Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Print Space Them Thousands Today Words

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Editor

Born: Unknown

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