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By: Rebecca,
on 12/5/2008
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Several weeks ago Jesse Shiedlower, Editor-at-large of the Oxford English Dictionary and its first-ever North American editor, Barbara Wallraff, a senior editor and the ”Word Court” and ”Word Fugitives” columnist for the Atlantic, and Ammon Shea author of Reading the OED spoke at The Free Library of Philadelphia. Listen to the podcast here.
To learn more about how much fun it can be to coin words check The Sarah Silverman Show’s take here.
So are you down with the OED? I certainly am and if you are feeling generous feel free to buy me the tee-shirt.
