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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
Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.
— Michael McKean
We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.
— Erin McKean
It's not even been a two-and-two-make five sort of day, it's more like a two-and-two-make ... fish
— Dave 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
Oh, sheep. I've lost all my sobbing colours.
— Dave 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
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
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
Lexicographers are language reporters.
— 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
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
When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.
— Michael McKean
The use of food metaphors is really well established English ... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.
— Erin McKean
All language is a popularity contest.
— Erin McKean
If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.
— Erin McKean
It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.
— Michael McKean
I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.
— Michael McKean
The filmmakers I really love are the ones that let me look through their eyes for a while. They have an aesthetic and social point of view.
— Dave 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
Music is the space between the notes as much as the notes themselves; it's defined as much by silence as by sound.
— James McKean
Words take on many different meanings.
— Erin McKean
Pride in what and who you are is a strong foundation, but don't be defined by your oppression; use your anger, don't let it use you.
— Dave McKean
I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.
— Michael McKean
Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.
— Erin McKean
There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.
— Michael McKean
I never regret anything and I don't believe in regret. I think it's just a big time-waster.
— Michael 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
Those people that you know for a long time and that you love, they're the easiest to talk to.
— Michael McKean
Experiences is just paying attention as time passes.
— Erin McKean
They were kind of like little Stephen King stories ... but these go back many hundreds of years.
— Michael McKean
You know, I think it's one of those cases where the situation really does dictate your level of ridicule.
— Michael McKean
You can limit the number of invitations to an in-person fashion show, but you can't police the Internet.
— Erin McKean
All words have life cycles.
— Erin McKean