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Erin McKean really likes dictionaries.

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• The "Official Biography"
• Erin McKean, according to Wikipedia (feel free to edit)
• Google video of the talk I gave ... at Google.
• New York Times article on lexicographers
• on NPR ... "Googling for New Words"
• blogging for Powells.com
• chatting at Wordsmith.org
• in Foreign Policy ... talking about blogs
• To the Best of Our Knowledge ... (RealAudio)
• McKean's Law
• So You Want To Be A Lexicographer? booklist

Books & Mags & Other Blogs

• VERBATIM ... From the bawdy to the sublime, the best writing on language for word lovers, grammar mavens, and armchair linguists
• Weird and Wonderful Words
• More Weird and Wonderful Words
• Totally Weird and Wonderful Words
• That's Amore
• VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly
• A Dress A Day

• Words: Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, a...
• Dictionaries in the funny pages ...
• Some Perfectly Cromulent Words
• iSummit Sapporo talk
• Dictionary piece in the Boston Globe yesterday
• Semicolon Followup
• Semicolon Appreciation Society
• Ask The Dictionary Evangelist
• Happy Valentine's Day!
• Cheat at Scrabble!

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