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We think people go to a dictionary to find out what a word means. Most people go to the dictionary because they don't want to look stupid.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Because Dictionary Find Go Look Means Most Out People Stupid Think Want Word

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Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: About Been Before Die Ever Every Goal Ideally In Print Information Print Some Used Word

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Almost any word can be drafted to serve as a verb, even words we think of as eternal and unchanging, stuck in their more traditional roles.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Almost Any Drafted Eternal Even More Roles Serve Stuck Think Traditional Unchanging Verb Word Words

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Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Annoying Clarity Confusing Deeply Easily English Finds Friend Like Motivated Objections Personal Problem Taste Tend Understood Verb Word Words

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Twitter has already birthed an entire ecosystem of other sites that extend its power or interact with it. But Twitter isn't just a platform for technological innovation: It's showing signs as an engine of creativity for the language, too.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Creativity Ecosystem Engine Entire Extend Innovation Interact Just Language Other Platform Power Showing Signs Sites Technological Too Twitter

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Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Been Conversations Could Dictionary Editors Exactly Exactly What Like People Twitter Which Wishing Years

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You can limit the number of invitations to an in-person fashion show, but you can't police the Internet.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Fashion Fashion Show Internet Limit Number Police Show You

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Lexicographers are language reporters.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Language Reporters

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Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Could How Lovable Love Words You

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By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.

~Erin Mckean

Topics: Become By The Time Fashion Interested Looking Lost Male Origins Time Words

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Editor

Born: Unknown

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