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:
<ul>
 <li>20 years of Oxford Word of the Year
</li>
 <li>Why she can’t reveal any secrets about WOTY2024… 
</li>
 <li>Why some words stick around and others don’t
</li>
 <li>What makes a good WOTY candidate
</li>
 <li>Word formation processes
</li>
 <li>Where and how new words are being generated and disseminated 
</li>
</ul>
20 Years of Words that Reflect our World: <a href="https://corp.oup.com/word-of-the-year/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://corp.oup.com/word-of-the-year/</a> 
Our 2023 conversation with Fiona: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lexispodcast/episodes/Episode-47---Fiona-McPherson-of-the-OED-and-Words-of-the-Year-2023-e2db526" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lexispodcast/episodes/Episode-47---Fiona-McPherson-of-the-OED-and-Words-of-the-Year-2023-e2db526</a> 

Contributors
Lisa Casey 
blog: <a href="https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://livingthroughlanguage.wordpress.com/</a> & Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/LanguageDebates" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Language Debates (@LanguageDebates)</a>
Dan Clayton 
blog: <a href="http://englishlangsfx.blogspot.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">EngLangBlog</a> & Bluesky: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/englangblog.bsky.social</a> 
Jacky Glancey 
Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/JackyGlancey</a>
Raj Rana
Matthew Butler 
Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/MatthewbutlerCA</a> 
We are on Bluesky: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/lexispodcast.bsky.social</a> 
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: <a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://freemusicarchive.org/music/serge-quadrado/urban/cool-guys</a>

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