It's difficult to choose a Word of the Year in the year that you're in. It's one of those things that hindsight makes more apparent. It's like looking at pictures from 10 years ago, and you notice the flannel and… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
“This isn’t a thrift store… We’re not selling them something less expensive, we’re selling them something more special. We have to tell them the… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
Almost any word can be drafted to serve as a verb, even words we think of as eternal and unchanging, stuck in their more… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
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… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Uniforms are intended to make the wearer look as strong as possible. Soldiers could fight in leotards, but that's never going to happen because… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
It's difficult to choose a Word of the Year in the year that you're in. It's one of those things that hindsight makes more… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
And I don't like people who eat powdered doughnuts. I don't car how careful you are, they're just plain messy. I can't believe they… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them. — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
“The rule is, don't speak of the dead, not don't speak ill of the dead's terrible relatives.” — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
