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Erin McKean, editor and lexicographer for the New Oxford American Dictionary, tells Google the ten things she wishes people knew about dictionaries, how people go about making new words, and how lexicographers use Google.

Erin McKean has wanted to be a lexicographer since she was eight years old. She has a BA and an MA in Linguistics from the University of Chicago, where she wrote her master's thesis on the treatment of phrasal verbs in children's dictionaries. While at the University of Chicago, she worked as a volunteer at the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary. Before OUP, Erin spent eight years at Scott Foresman, where she worked on the Thorndike Barnhart children's dictionaries. Erin is a member of the...

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  • Someday I will marry a woman whose knowledge and depth of vocabulary calls to mind vast and sweeping vistas; lush, green, and alive.

  • From what i can read in your comment (and what i can see from your videos) you don't seem particularly eloquent yourself. Perhaps you should not give you opinion so lightly especially when you yourself are as intelligible as a donkey in distress.

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  • This lady needs to stop fingering her dic-tionary and go get laid.

  • Wow...uh...this makes me feel horribly awkward.

  • Google Fan Fic O.o , and it would be Yaoi or Yuri ? :P

  • @gekritzl - I'd say the construction "it's very $emotion-making" is modern idiomatic use; good on Erin for playing with language use intelligently (and intelligibly).

  • brickbungalow - what did it say? Looks like they removed it.

  • At 9:30 she says "which is very sad-making" presumably because "sad" is a human emotion? She couldn't have said "which is very sad" because it's grammatically incorrect? I'm guessing here.

  • the first comment is positively hilarious

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