47 Quotes by Erin McKean

Language is a nice way to remember things.

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

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.

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

Twitter has already birthed an entire ecosystem of other sites that extend its power or interact with it. But Twitter isn't just a platform for technological innovation: It's showing signs as an engine of creativity for the language, too.

It's difficult to choose a Word of the Year in the year that you're in. It's one of those things that hindsight makes more apparent. It's like looking at pictures from 10 years ago, and you notice the flannel and the ripped jeans. At the time, it didn't look to you like a real fashion trend.

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

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