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Mignon Fogarty (grammargirl@zirk.us)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 01:39:46 JST Mignon Fogarty
- Erin McKean
If you love dictionaries, you'll love this week's Grammar Girl podcast with @emckean, founder of the Wordnik dictionary.
In this clip, I talk about adopting the word "podcast," and she talks about a man who adopted "beautiful" as a gift to his wife.
Check out the full interview to learn how one delightful person can run a whole dictionary!
Read: https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/mckean/transcript
Listen: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-your-own-dictionary-with-erin-mckean/id173429229?i=1000679326998
Watch: https://youtu.be/EdU1H85u_HU
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1. One thing that I appreciate, after I heard you speak a couple of years ago, I adopted a word. I adopted the word “podcast” on Wordnik because you can do that. And then you sent me some stickers, some very cute stickers. Did you do that in the very beginning or did that come about after you became a nonprofit? ERIN: A non-profit because we were looking for ways to fund Wordnik, so Adopt A Word is actually my favorite way that we fund Wordnik because I think it gives people a sense of like connection to words, and lots of people adopt words. Sometimes they adopt their own usernames. Sometimes they adopt words that are related to their business. Sometimes they just adopt a word as a gift for someone. I think we had someone a couple years ago who adopted the word "beautiful" as an anniversary present for his wife. Which I was like, "Aww." And I do love sending people stickers. I like seeing the stickers in the wild sometimes, especially the Semicolon Appreciation Society sticker, like I've seen that on people's laptops and water bottles.
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