We think people go to a dictionary to find out what a word means. Most people go to the dictionary because they don't want to look stupid.
Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print.
Almost any word can be drafted to serve as a verb, even words we think of as eternal and unchanging, stuck in their more traditional roles.
Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying.
Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.
You can limit the number of invitations to an in-person fashion show, but you can't police the Internet.
If you're talking about how you promoted synergy in an organization, that could mean you just got everybody together for donuts twice a week.
Lexicographers are language reporters.
Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?
By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.
Uniforms are intended to make the wearer look as strong as possible. Soldiers could fight in leotards, but that's never going to happen because leotards aren't intimidating.
The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.
A love letter is to be savored; a love email... is to be forwarded to all your friends, and probably laughed at.
If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition.
