I'm a young folker and you can think of me as your friendly guide to the English language.

We talk about writing, history, rules, and other cool stuff.

And today we're going to have an especially exciting conversation with John Kelly.

He is the Senior Director of Editorial at Dictionary.com.

Hi John, thanks for being here with us today.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, so what does it mean that you're the Senior Director of Editorial at Dictionary.com?

What's your day look like?

I get to work with a lot of different words.

Let's just put it that way.

The words just don't stop coming and what we have to do with them.

Well, it keeps us, keeps us inner jobs.

I have the great job of getting to oversee our wonderful Dictionary at Dictionary.com,

as well as our Thasaurus at Thasaurus.com, surprise, surprise.

And all of the hundreds and even thousands of pieces of supporting content we do to help

you learn words, connect with words, have fun with words, struggle with words, and it

all comes into place under Dictionary at Thasaurus.com.

Right, so talk about that fire hose of words that are coming at you all the time.

How do you, well first let's say first how does a new word get in the Dictionary?

That is a great question.

In a fire hose is a great, great metaphor for that.

The vocabulary of the English language is vast.

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