Adding a Little EVOO ... to the Dictionary!

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It's one thing to get your name in lights, but quite another to get your expressions in print -- in the dictionary no less! Erin McKean, Editor-in-Chief of American Dictionaries, presents Rachael with a certificate declaring that "EVOO" will be added to the 2007 Oxford American College Dictionary!

Erin explains that of the thousands of submissions they receive every year, only a few make the cut:

"In order for a word to get into the dictionary it has to be useful to people. It's not just enough to be a fabulous celebrity to get your word in. You have to make a word that people like to use. There are words that are connected with celebrities that are not going to make it in the dictionary anytime soon; we're not going to put in "Brangelina." But "EVOO" we see people using. We have a big database of about a billion and a half English words. In that database we found evidence of "EVOO" being used and in more than half of the examples, "Rachael" is also in the same sentence."

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