Grant Barrett (born 1970) is an American lexicographer, specializing in slang, jargon and new usage. He is the editor of the Official Dictionary of Unofficial English (McGraw-Hill, 2006, ISBN 0071458042), the Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang (Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0195176855), and the award-winning web site Double-Tongued Dictionary. In January 2007, he became the new co-host of the national public radio show A Way With Words. He is also the vice president of communications and technology for the American Dialect Society, a member of the editorial review board for the academic journal American Speech, editor of the journal's "Among the New Words" column, and one of the founders of the new online dictionary Wordnik.
External links
- Personal weblog, The Lexicographer's Rules
- Grant Barrett's bio on the A Way with Words web site
- Bio on Double-Tongued Dictionary
- American Dialect Society
- New York Times article
- Wordnik, an online dictionary that aims to collect all the words
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