Erin McKean

Ideally my goal is, before I die, to have some information about every word that's ever been used in print.

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.

What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.