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About Grant Barrett
Grant Barrett is radio host, public speaker, lexicographer and journalist.
He is co-host of the language-related public radio show A Way with Words, independently produced in and distributed from San Diego and broadcast each week to hundreds of thousands of listeners in the United States, Canada, and around the world.
He is also an American lexicographer and dictionary editor specializing in slang and new words. He compiled and edited the Official Dictionary of Unofficial English (2006, McGraw-Hill) and the Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang (2004, Oxford University Press), and is creator of the prize-winning online Double-Tongued Dictionary which tracks slang, jargon, and neologisms from the fringes of English (but has now been merged with the A Way with Words website). He is also a co-founder of Wordnik, an online dictionary.
He has contributed to dozens of monolingual and bilingual dictionaries in the English-speaking world, including serving as project editor of the four-volume Historical Dictionary of American Slang (2003-2006, Oxford University Press). He has contributed as a lexicographer to the Cambridge Dictionary of American English (second edition, 2008), the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary (2008), the Collins British English Advanced Dictionary (2008), Collins Cobuild English/Japanese Dictionary of Advanced English (2008), the Collins Spanish Intermediate Dictionary (2008), the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus (first edition, 2004), the New Oxford American Dictionary (2001, first edition, and 2005, second edition), the Concise Oxford American Thesaurus (2006), and the Concise Oxford American Dictionary (2006).
A full bio is here: http://grantbarrett.com/about
He is co-host of the language-related public radio show A Way with Words, independently produced in and distributed from San Diego and broadcast each week to hundreds of thousands of listeners in the United States, Canada, and around the world.
He is also an American lexicographer and dictionary editor specializing in slang and new words. He compiled and edited the Official Dictionary of Unofficial English (2006, McGraw-Hill) and the Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang (2004, Oxford University Press), and is creator of the prize-winning online Double-Tongued Dictionary which tracks slang, jargon, and neologisms from the fringes of English (but has now been merged with the A Way with Words website). He is also a co-founder of Wordnik, an online dictionary.
He has contributed to dozens of monolingual and bilingual dictionaries in the English-speaking world, including serving as project editor of the four-volume Historical Dictionary of American Slang (2003-2006, Oxford University Press). He has contributed as a lexicographer to the Cambridge Dictionary of American English (second edition, 2008), the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary (2008), the Collins British English Advanced Dictionary (2008), Collins Cobuild English/Japanese Dictionary of Advanced English (2008), the Collins Spanish Intermediate Dictionary (2008), the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus (first edition, 2004), the New Oxford American Dictionary (2001, first edition, and 2005, second edition), the Concise Oxford American Thesaurus (2006), and the Concise Oxford American Dictionary (2006).
A full bio is here: http://grantbarrett.com/about
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Blog postThis Saturday join me at the San Diego Book Festival, where I’ll talk with author/poet/professor Aaron Kunin and author/journalist/professor Dean Nelson. Our session @ 3:15-4:30 p.m. Full sked: https://t.co/oAd3yB5gMl https://t.co/bSyLZY8k2f
This Saturday join me at the San Diego Book Festival, where I'll talk with author/poet/professor Aaron Kunin and author/journalist/professor Dean Nelson. Our session @ 3:15-4:30 p.m. Full sked: https://t.co/oAd3yB5gMl pic.twitter.com/bSyLZY8k2f1 year ago Read more -
Blog postThis Saturday join me at the San Diego Book Festival, where I’ll talk with author/poet/professor Aaron Kunin and author/journalist/professor Dean Nelson. Our session @ 3:15-4:30 p.m. Full sked: https://t.co/oAd3yB5gMl https://t.co/bSyLZY8k2f
This Saturday join me at the San Diego Book Festival, where I'll talk with author/poet/professor Aaron Kunin and author/journalist/professor Dean Nelson. Our session @ 3:15-4:30 p.m. Full sked: https://t.co/oAd3yB5gMl pic.twitter.com/bSyLZY8k2f1 year ago Read more -
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Blog postI am enthralled and amazed at the phenomenal work done in revealing the story of a comatose mystery man known as “66 Garage.” Podcast: https://t.co/KUGPPHqeGn LA Times story: https://t.co/8VXpLmWvlL Background: https://t.co/zScPbhJhkL
I am enthralled and amazed at the phenomenal work done in revealing the story of a comatose mystery man known as "66 Garage." Podcast: https://t.co/KUGPPHqeGn LA Times story: https://t.co/8VXpLmWvlL Background: https://t.co/zScPbhJhkL
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Blog postRecommended: @GretchenAMcC book about the Internet and language, “Because Internet.” https://t.co/YpSjx18ADN She’s got mad language chops, co-hosts a refreshing podcast about language (Lingthusiasm), and is a source of high-quality language info on social media.
Recommended: @GretchenAMcC book about the Internet and language, "Because Internet." https://t.co/YpSjx18ADN She's got mad language chops, co-hosts a refreshing podcast about language (Lingthusiasm), and is a source2 years ago Read more -
Blog postThe digital hand. Found art in a scanned newspaper archive. https://t.co/142oKyr3MH
The digital hand. Found art in a scanned newspaper archive. pic.twitter.com/142oKyr3MH
— Grant Barrett (@GrantBarrett) July 1, 2019
http://twitter.com/GrantBarrett/status/1145720364187754496
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Blog postListen tonight as I’m scheduled to go on the Karen Conti show on WGN Chicago at 7:30 CDT to talk about common stumbling blocks in everyday English. https://t.co/Us0v30FhPO
Listen tonight as I'm scheduled to go on the Karen Conti show on WGN Chicago at 7:30 CDT to talk about common stumbling blocks in everyday English. https://t.co/Us0v30FhPO
— Grant Barrett (@GrantBarrett) June 23, 2019
http://twitter.com/GrantBarrett/status/1142944655744667653
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Books By Grant Barrett
The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang
Apr 21, 2006
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The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English: A Crunk Omnibus for Thrillionaires and Bampots for the Ecozoic Age
May 23, 2006
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