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Episode 62 - Fiona McPherson and 20 Years of Oxford WOTY


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Show notes for Episode 62

Here are the show notes for Episode 62, in which Raj and Dan talk to Fiona McPherson, senior editor at the Oxford English Dictionary about:

  • 20 years of Oxford Word of the Year

  • Why she can’t reveal any secrets about WOTY2024… 

  • Why some words stick around and others don’t

  • What makes a good WOTY candidate

  • Word formation processes

  • Where and how new words are being generated and disseminated 

  • 20 Years of Words that Reflect our World: https://corp.oup.com/word-of-the-year/ 

    Our 2023 conversation with Fiona: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lexispodcast/episodes/Episode-47---Fiona-McPherson-of-the-OED-and-Words-of-the-Year-2023-e2db526 


    Contributors

    Lisa Casey 

    blog: https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/ & Twitter: Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)

    Dan Clayton 

    blog: EngLangBlog & Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social 

    Jacky Glancey 

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey

    Raj Rana

    Matthew Butler 

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA 

    We are on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social 

    Music: Serge Quadrado - Cool Guys 


    Cool Guys by Serge Quadrado is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. From the Free Music Archive: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys

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