Erin McKean Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Erin McKean quotes and sayings page 3 (editor). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 34 we have.
“Language is a nice way to remember things.”
“By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.”
“Lexicographers are language reporters.”
“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.”
“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 very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary.”
“Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.”
“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.”
“What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English.”
“Words take on many different meanings.”
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