"I am not the curator of the word museum." Erin McKean, editor and lexicographer for the New Oxford American Dictionary, describes the ten things she wishes people knew about dictionaries, how people go about making new words, and how lexicographers use Google.

"Is the beloved paper dictionary doomed to extinction? When does a made-up word become real? And could you use "synecdochical" in a sentence, please? In this infectiously exuberant talk, leading lexicographer... more inside