Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print.
Erin McKean
Part of the joy and pleasure of English is its boundless creativity: I can describe a new machine as bicyclish, I can say that I'm vitamining... →
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.
I think we would all like to believe that every new event demands a new word. But we're environmentally conscious with our words. We recycle... →
Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance... →
Well, I am not afraid of the word 'liberal.'
Cynthia McKinney
When I sing, it's just... comfort is a stupid word, but it is.
Sarah McLachlan
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
Marshall McLuhan
I didn't know the word no, because I wanted to please everybody all the time. Every kid does.
Kristy McNichol
Rap and spoken word have reawakened the country to poetry in itself. Texting and Twitter encourage creative uses of casual language, in ways I have... →
John McWhorter