How Do Words Get into the Dictionary?

词汇如何进入词典?

Lexicon Valley from Booksmart Studios

2026-03-11

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⁠⁠Getting new words into the dictionary is a rigorous, time consuming process — with no guarantee of success. Visit Lexicon Valley⁠⁠⁠. A Booksmart Studios production. Episode 293: "How Do Words Get in the Dictionary." With Stefan Fatsis and Bob Garfield. Edited and produced by Mike Vuolo. Produced by Livia Bloom Ingram. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • this is Lexicon Valley a podcast about language Mike Volo is out this week where I'm not sure Vegas maybe maximum-security Salvadoran prison It might just be a spa day So I'll resume with the second installment of my conversation with Stefan fatsis author of unabridged the thrill of and threat to modern dictionaries.

  • As mentioned in part one, Unabridged is really six books in one,

  • one of which is a quixotic adventure.

  • The author, who once spent a summer trying to be a place kicker in an NFL training camp,

  • this time aspires to professional lexicography,

  • which is where we pick up the conversation as Stefan walks into Merriam-Webster to commence his new position as a definer.

  • It was way more difficult than I imagined, right?

  • We're journalists, right, Bob?