Grant Barrett
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On Blogger since September 2007
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Lexicographer, Editor, Radio Host |
| Location | Brooklyn, NY, United States |
| Introduction | I am an American lexicographer and editor of The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English (May 2006, McGraw-Hill) and the Double-Tongued Dictionary. I am cohost of the language-related public radio show A Way With Words, http://waywordradio.org, broadcast nationwide via radio, streaming, and podcast. I also serve as vice president for communications and technology for the American Dialect Society, an academic organization that has been devoted to the study of English in North America for more than 118 years. Formerly, I worked as lexicographer for Oxford University Press in New York City, for which I served as project editor of the Historical Dictionary of American Slang and edited the Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang (2004). On occasion, I contribute to the journal American Speech and write for newspapers such as the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Malaysian Star. |
| Interests | lexicography, lexicographers, dictionary, dictionaries, english, language, grammar, usage, style, punctuation, linguistics, sociolinguistics, editing, writing, literature, editors |