Erin McKean

Erin McKean

Erin McKean (born 1971) is an American lexicographer. She is the Chief Consulting Editor for American Dictionaries at Oxford University PressFact|date=May 2008 and was the Principal Editor of "The New Oxford American Dictionary", second edition [cite book
title=The New Oxford American Dictionary
edition=2nd
editor=Erin McKean
pages=2051
month=May
year=2005,
publisher=Oxford University Press
isbn=0195170776
] . Before joining Oxford University Press, she worked on the Thorndike-Barnhart children’s dictionaries for Scott Foresman.Fact|date=May 2008 She lives in Chicago, Illinois, with her husband and sonFact|date=May 2008.

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.Fact|date=May 2008

External links

;Biographies
* [http://www.dictionaryevangelist.com/official_bio.html “Official biography”] at Dictionary Evangelist
* [http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Speakers/Erin_McKean McKean’s speaker profile] for Wikimania 2007 Taipei
* [http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board#Erin_McKean McKean’s biography] as member of the Wikimedia Advisory Board
* [http://www.stokefire.com/groupies/meet_the_thingnamers/ McKean’s biography] at Stokefire

;Blogs
* [http://www.dressaday.com/dressaday.html A Dress A Day]
* [http://www.dictionaryevangelist.com Dictionary Evangelist]
* [http://www.powells.com/blog/?author=49 McKean’s posts] at Powells.com

;Talks
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1588634025806636713 Video of a speech] by Erin McKean at Google
* [http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/161 “Redefining the Dictionary,”] McKean’s lecture at TED

;Profiles and interviews
* [http://www.word-detective.com/lexicographers.html "New York Times": “In Land of Lexicons, Having the Last Word”]
* [http://www.wordsmith.org/chat/mckean.html Chat] at Wordsmith.org
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4604623 "NPR": “Googling for New Words”]

;Other
* [http://www.verbatimmag.com/ Verbatim magazine]

References

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