Off the Wall show for August 7, 2007>
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Tue, 7 Aug 2007 23:06:42 -0400
new words from the Dictionary Society of North America
This is a special edition of podictionary. This 33 minute podcast comes to you from the University of Chicago where this summer the Dictionary Society of North America held its 16th biennial meeting. Part of the program was a public open microphone session at which people were invited to make their case for a new word that they felt should be in the dictionary. The session was hosted by Erin McKean and the new word judging panel was made up of David Jost - Director of Electronic Publishing for Houghton Mifflin; Wendalyn Nichols - former Editorial Director of Reference Works at Random House; and Grant Barrett - editor of the Double Tongued Dictionary and host of A Way With Words from KPBS radio Podictionary recorded the session and KPBS was kind enough to edit the audio for co-podcast release. During the course of the episode youll hear references to the following websites: Dictionary Society of North America Erin McKeans Dictionary Evangelist Cambridge University Press dictionaries Oxford English Corpus American Heritage Dictionary at Bartleby.com Copy Editor newsletter Carl Burnetts Ski Dictionary Amy Reynaldos Diary of a Crossword Fiend Mark Peters Wordlustitude Charles Hodgsons Carnal Knowledge book about the words for our bodies Thanks to everyone who participated and particularly to those who helped organize the event and prepare this podcast.
Sat, 4 Aug 2007 16:31:20 EDT
