World of Weird Words
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Erin McKean, founder of Wordnik, joins us to talk about the latest word trends.
Erin McKean founded the world's biggest online dictionary, Wordnik. A graduate of The University of Chicago, she has also written books on weird words and given TED Talks about the subject. She joins us to talk about the latest word trends and linguistic gymnastics. Take a quiz on weird words.
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World of Weird Words
Clip: 3/31/2015 | 8m 13sVideo has Closed Captions
Erin McKean founded the world's biggest online dictionary, Wordnik. A graduate of The University of Chicago, she has also written books on weird words and given TED Talks about the subject. She joins us to talk about the latest word trends and linguistic gymnastics. Take a quiz on weird words.
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