The Lexicographer's Rules

This web site is edited and managed by Grant Barrett, who is solely responsible for its content. Opinions given on this site do not in whole nor in part necessarily represent the points of view of any other person or organization.

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 also editorial director of the online dictionary Wordnik. I am also cohost of the language-related public radio show A Way With Words 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 since 1889. I currently do freelance lexicography for Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and for the Collins-brand dictionaries published by Cengage, formerly known as Thomson Heinle. In the past, 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.

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