47 Quotes by 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.

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

Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so they flip the book over, then go to the back, and it says, 'Over 250,000 entries.' And they go, 'Great, this dictionary must be awesome!'

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.

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

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

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

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

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