The Words of Jane Austen

The brains behind some of the world's dictionaries gathered at McGill University this week.

People who work in anything from English to Cayuga to Russian to Sanskrit.

They're called the Dictionary Society of North America.

Rod McConchie is a senior lecturer at the University of Helsinki - though he's originally from Australia.

He's currently working on a dictionary of Jane Austen, among a variety of other wildly different projects.