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"Verbatim" - Erin McKean speaks at Google
Erin McKean, editor and lexicographer for the New Oxford American Dictionary, tells Google the ten things she wishes people knew about dictionaries, how people go about making new words, and how lexicographers use Google.Erin McKean has wanted to be a lexicographer since she was eight years old. She has a BA and an MA in Linguistics from the University of Chicago, where she wrote her master's thesis on the treatment of phrasal verbs in children's dictionaries. While at the University of Chicago, she worked as a volunteer at the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary. Before OUP, Erin spent eight years at Scott Foresman, where she worked on the Thorndike Barnhart children's dictionaries. Erin is a member of the...
Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: July 16, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Author: Google
Length: 54:47
Rating: 4.82
Views: 1808
Tags: Arts Crafts dictionaries Sewing
Video Comments
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brickbungalow (January 31, 2008 at 10:28 pm)
the first comment is positively hilarious
ChrisSketch (January 1, 2008 at 12:38 am)
Someday I will marry a woman whose knowledge and depth of vocabulary calls to mind vast and sweeping vistas; lush, green, and alive.
slyn4ice (November 30, 2007 at 4:27 am)
From what i can read in your comment (and what i can see from your videos) you don't seem particularly eloquent yourself. Perhaps you should not give you opinion so lightly especially when you yourself are as intelligible as a donkey in distress.
malecon77 (November 2, 2007 at 6:32 pm)
this is interesting speech, but the woman is not able to keep one nice information and try to trasport another one in the good quality. she is poor in linking words in spite of she is talking about the importance of words |
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