Goblin Mode, Woman, & More. Words of the Year, with Kory Stamper

907. The fabulous Kory Stamper, author of "Word by Word," joins me this week to talk about words of the year: how they get chosen, what makes each one different, and what people yearn for in their words of the year.

| Transcript: https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/words-or-the-year/transcript

My guest is Kory Stamper, author of "Word by Word, the Secret Life of Dictionaries."

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