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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lexicographers are language reporters. — Erin McKean

Words take on many different meanings. — Erin McKean

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

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

All language is a popularity contest. — Erin McKean

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

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

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

Language is a nice way to remember things. — Erin McKean

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

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

All words have life cycles. — Erin McKean

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

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

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

Experiences is just paying attention as time passes. — Erin McKean

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