Erin McKean
Erin McKean (born 1971) is an American lexicographer. Erin is a founder and the CEO of the online dictionary Wordnik.[1][2] She was previously the Principal Editor of The New Oxford American Dictionary, second edition.[3] McKean is also the editor of Verbatim: The Language Quarterly and the author of Weird and Wonderful Words, More Weird and Wonderful Words, Totally Weird and Wonderful Words, and That’s Amore. She has a novel, The Secret Lives of Dresses, coming out from Grand Central.[4] She writes about dresses in her blog, A Dress A Day, and about lexicography at Dictionary Evangelist. She is currently a member of the advisory board of the Wikimedia Foundation[5] and of Credo Reference.[6] She frequently writes the "The Word" column in The Boston Globe.[7]
McKean has formulated 'McKean's law', a variation on Muphry's law: "Any correction of the speech or writing of others will contain at least one grammatical, spelling, or typographical error."[8]
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- Biographies
- “Official biography” at Dictionary Evangelist
- McKean’s speaker profile for Wikimania 2007 Taipei
- McKean’s biography as member of the Wikimedia Advisory Board
- McKean’s biography at Stokefire
- Blogs
- A Dress A Day
- Dictionary Evangelist
- McKean’s posts at Powells.com
- Talks
- Video of a speech by Erin McKean at Google
- TED Talks: Erin McKean redefines the dictionary at TED in 2007
- Gel videos: Your daily lexicographer quota at Gel in 2006
- Profiles and interviews
- New York Times: “In Land of Lexicons, Having the Last Word”
- Chat at Wordsmith.org
- NPR: “Googling for New Words”
- iCommons: "A word or two with Erin McKean"
- Portfolio.com: "A Woman of Many Words"
- Other
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- ^ "Christian Science Monitor". 2009-03-16. http://features.csmonitor.com/backstory/2009/03/16/new-online-dictionary-redefines-look-it-up/.
- ^ "Credo Reference". http://corp.credoreference.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2249&Itemid=30.
- ^ Erin McKean, ed. (May 2005,). The New Oxford American Dictionary (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 2051. ISBN 0195170776.
- ^ "How Erin McKean Sold Her Blog-Based Book". MediaBistro. 2008-11-07. http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/behind_the_deal/exclusive_interview_how_erin_mckean_sold_her_blogbased_book_99973.asp.
- ^ Wikimedia Foundation contributors (2009-02-26). "Advisory Board – Wikimedia Foundation". Wikimedia Foundation. http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Advisory_Board&oldid=38606#Erin_McKean. Retrieved 2009-03-20.
- ^ "Credo Reference". http://corp.credoreference.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2249&Itemid=30.
- ^ Chillax – If it works like a word, just use it. Boston Globe 2008-08-03
- ^ "A word to the wise". (12 August 2008). The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada), pp. A14.
