Grant Barrett

Grant Barrett (born 1970) is an American lexicographer, specializing in slang, jargon and new usage. He is also co-host and co-producer of the nationwide public radio show A Way With Words, and 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. 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, former editor of the journal's "Among the New Words" column, and founder of the 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