# Erin McKean: Redefining the dictionary - Host: [ted.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/ted.com/) - Saved: September 12, 2007 (2007-09-13T03:17:38Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4ae22cdf2836/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4ae22cdf2836.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) 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 Erin McKean looks at the many ways in which tod ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Same host - [TED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo (video)](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/4097f47a1779/) (ted.com, August 23, 2007) - [TED | Talks | James Howard Kunstler: The tragedy of suburbia (video)](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3c6855dd3c04/) (ted.com, August 23, 2007) - [Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/921ccbf94e0e/) (ted.com, August 23, 2007) - [James Howard Kunstler: The tragedy of suburbia](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e94fe33fc8a3/) (ted.com, August 23, 2007) - [TED | Talks | Erin McKean: Redefining the dictionary (video)](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/043ed76f7700/) (ted.com, September 12, 2007) ## Saved the same week - [TED | Talks | Erin McKean: Redefining the dictionary (video)](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/043ed76f7700/) (ted.com, September 12, 2007) - [Totally Scored :: Recent Sports Scores via RSS Feed](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/03219d7037bb/) (totallyscored.com, September 13, 2007) - [Streetcards - Gaping Void](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/082aec06f197/) (gapingvoid.streetcards.com, September 13, 2007) - [YouTube - Off The List: Episode 1 - Verizon](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/fa066614e3e0/) (youtube.com, September 13, 2007) - [Gapingvoid: cartoons drawn on the back of business cards](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/06943c1a1aab/) (gapingvoid.com, September 13, 2007) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ted.com/talks/erin_mckean_redefines_the_dictionary