Category: media
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Talking 2025 Words of the Year on the Lexis podcast
“The more we are talking about words, the better.”
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My slang lexicography, now up on Merriam-Webster
I wrote about a wide variety of slang and trending terms for an impressive new section on Merriam-Webster.
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Chatting 2024 Words of the Year with Grammar Girl
Watch and listen to John Kelly chat about the 2024 Words of the Year with Mignon Fogarty on the delightful and distinguished Grammar Girl podcast.
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TIME, emoji, and the unusual “with-” in “withdraw”
This past week, TIME magazine’s talented Katy Steinmetz interviewed me for a fantastic piece on the challenges of using words that have offensive histories, such as bulldozer. (Steinmetz also interviewed me back in 2016, you may recall, about the fascinating Japanese linguistics behind words like Pokémon and karaoke.) Catch up on my writing for the…
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