Lexis Episode 62 - Fiona McPherson and 20 Years of Oxford WOTY
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