Erin McKean
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Erin McKean (born 1971) is an American lexicographer. She is the Chief Consulting Editor for American Dictionaries at Oxford University Press[citation needed] and was the Principal Editor of The New Oxford American Dictionary, second edition[1]. Before joining Oxford University Press, she worked on the Thorndike-Barnhart children’s dictionaries for Scott Foresman[citation needed]. She lives in Chicago, Illinois, with her husband and son[citation needed].
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 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.
In late 2007, she began working as consulting lexicographer for Stokefire, a naming and branding firm in Alexandria, Virginia[citation needed].
McKean’s Law is an alternative name for Skitt’s Law, which states that, "Any correction of the speech or writing of others will contain at least one grammatical, spelling, or typographical error"[citation needed].
[edit] External links
- 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
- “Redefining the Dictionary,” McKean’s lecture at TED
- Profiles and interviews
- New York Times: “In Land of Lexicons, Having the Last Word”
- Chat at Wordsmith.org
- NPR: “Googling for New Words”
- Other
[edit] References
- ^ (May 2005,) in Erin McKean: The New Oxford American Dictionary, 2nd, Oxford University Press, 2051. ISBN 0195170776.
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| NAME | McKean, Erin |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Lexicographer, dictionary editor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1971 |
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