I think we would all like to believe that every new event demands a new word. But we're environmentally conscious with our words. We recycle words we've got.

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.

I don't know any other public figure who has inspired so many words in a single year.

That's what dictionaries do. They catalog words in popular use.

Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance themselves from criticism, run the risk of creating doubt where perhaps none would have naturally arisen.

All words have life cycles.