[2] She has since served on the Visiting Committee to the University of Chicago's Regenstein Library, and she helped organize a dictionary-themed exhibit, The Meaning of Dictionaries, there in 2007.

[6] [7] McKean is also the editor of VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly, and edited a collection of work from that publication, Verbatim: From the bawdy to the sublime, the best writing on language for word lovers, grammar mavens, and armchair linguists (Mariner Books, 2001).

[12] She was previously a member of the advisory board of the Wikimedia Foundation[13] and is an advisor to Credo Reference.

", a quote from McKean's blog, A Dress A Day, has been widely shared on social media.

[23] Since the original post features a large picture of Diana Vreeland, the quote has occasionally been misattributed to her.