Erin McKean Looking Quotations

It's difficult to choose a Word of the Year in the year that you're in. It's one of those things that hindsight makes more apparent. It's like looking at pictures from 10 years ago, and you notice the flannel and the ripped jeans. At the time, it didn't look to you like a real fashion trend.

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.