Erin McKean on Weird and Wonderful Words

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Erin McKean is an editor at the Oxford English Dictionary and the author of “Weird and Wonderful Words.” She talks with Anne Strainchamps about the pleasures of strange words like “squintefego” and “limiculous.”And we hear from Steve Martin about a great dirty trick you can play on people learning a language.