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
If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.
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.
Words take on many different meanings.
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... →
One of the mistakes I made was thinking chickens and penguins could sing, just like all the other animals in the 'Muppets.' But it turns out... →
Bret McKenzie
Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard... →
Mark McKinnon
A few words about Sarah Palin: She is one of the most fascinating women I have ever met. She crackles with energy like a live electrical wire and on... →