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Erin McKean quotes: If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.

Erin McKean quotes: We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Erin McKean quotes: Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

Erin McKean quotes: If you say 'anti-aging,' how anti would it have to be, really? My guess is not much. Any amount of sunscreen could be considered anti-aging.

If you say 'anti-aging,' how anti would it have to be, really? My guess is not much. Any amount of sunscreen could be considered anti-aging.

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

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

Erin McKean quotes: If you're talking about how you promoted synergy in an organization, that could mean you just got everybody together for donuts twice a week.

If you're talking about how you promoted synergy in an organization, that could mean you just got everybody together for donuts twice a week.

Erin McKean quotes: The rule is, don't speak of the dead, not don't speak ill of the dead's terrible relatives.

The rule is, don't speak of the dead, not don't speak ill of the dead's terrible relatives.

Erin McKean quotes: 'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

'Aging' has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

Erin McKean quotes: Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

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

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 quotes: People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.

People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.

Erin McKean quotes: Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?

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

Erin McKean quotes: You can weaponize nice ... Being nice can make you be a little underestimated.

You can weaponize nice ... Being nice can make you be a little underestimated.

Erin McKean quotes: A love letter is to be savored; a love email ... is to be forwarded to all your friends, and probably laughed at.

A love letter is to be savored; a love email ... is to be forwarded to all your friends, and probably laughed at.

Erin McKean quotes: Lexicographers are language reporters.

Lexicographers are language reporters.

Erin McKean quotes: Words take on many different meanings.

Words take on many different meanings.

Erin McKean quotes: There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary.

There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary.

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

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

Erin McKean quotes: All language is a popularity contest.

All language is a popularity contest.

Erin McKean quotes: 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.

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

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

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

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 quotes: Language is a nice way to remember things.

Language is a nice way to remember things.

Erin McKean quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Singing is probably the better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it's cheaper, too.

Singing is probably the better medicine than half the stuff they sell in pill bottles, and it's cheaper, too.

Erin McKean quotes: All words have life cycles.

All words have life cycles.

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

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

Erin McKean quotes: The use of food metaphors is really well established English ... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.

The use of food metaphors is really well established English ... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.

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

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

Erin McKean quotes: Experiences is just paying attention as time passes.

Experiences is just paying attention as time passes.

Erin McKean quotes: If you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi

If you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi