
Corrections, Clarifications, and Grave Transgressions
Word Matters
00:00
Mount Weasel?
I would say color me sceptical about this whole thing. I think that mount weasel is the thing that's taken hold of the educated imaginationf te republic, that people want it to be true. However, my limited experience working at a different dictionary company that was thought to have a mount weasel,. which was new oxford american dictionary, was found toe word esquibolence. And i don't think it was put there intentionally with that in mind. But dictionaries are made to be reference tools and their reference for each other's work. It does also strike me as being antithetical to what we do. First f al, we're not having that much fun
Play episode from 09:39
Transcript


