Jesse Sheidlower
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Lexicographer. https://t.co/yoxrScZHnw. The F-Word. Ex-@OED. Past Pres, ADS. Adjunct @Columbia. Coder. Barbells. Threesome Tollbooth bar manager. Same ID @other places
New York
Joined May 2009
News: the 4th edition of The F-Word is coming out in two weeks from Oxford UP! Everything you could want to know about the word _fuck_. This is a major revision: 500 pages with 150 new entries, 150 antedatings, & 2,500 new quotations. For more info, see: https://t.co/RngXyXze4Z
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(Some of) today's F-Word news: @lithub just published a long excerpt from the Introduction. https://t.co/UDyQ8Jn4kG
https://t.co/xZ5BL0LfSC
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In all of English there are few words rich enough in their history and variety of use to warrant a dedicated dictionary that runs to hundreds of pages and multiple editions. That fuck is at the sam…
News: the 4th edition of The F-Word is coming out in two weeks from Oxford UP! Everything you could want to know about the word _fuck_. This is a major revision: 500 pages with 150 new entries, 150 antedatings, & 2,500 new quotations. For more info, see: https://t.co/RngXyXze4Z
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F-Word update, celebrating authors I know and like! Today's episode features the great @emilynussbaum, who appears twice, once as a reporter, quoting Fiona Apple using _fuck me_, and once as a critic, for _MILF_. The book is out today! Get your copy! https://t.co/xZ5BL0LfSC
News: the 4th edition of The F-Word is coming out in two weeks from Oxford UP! Everything you could want to know about the word _fuck_. This is a major revision: 500 pages with 150 new entries, 150 antedatings, & 2,500 new quotations. For more info, see: https://t.co/RngXyXze4Z
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A great thing about historical lexicography is being able to highlight authors I like! Here are two quotes from @hankgreen, from two new entries: interjectional _the fuck_, and interjectional _fuckballs_. https://t.co/xZ5BL0KI34
News: the 4th edition of The F-Word is coming out in two weeks from Oxford UP! Everything you could want to know about the word _fuck_. This is a major revision: 500 pages with 150 new entries, 150 antedatings, & 2,500 new quotations. For more info, see: https://t.co/RngXyXze4Z
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We are devastated to learn of the death our colleague Dr Jenni Nuttall @Stylisticienne, Lecturer @ExeterCollegeOx & member of @engfac. Jenni had been a much-loved member of our academic community over more than two decades. We shall miss her greatly.
english.web.ox.ac.uk
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Continuing a tradition for NYC-based conferences: I'm hosting a cocktail party at the @americandialect annual meeting, on Saturday 6 Jan at 7:00, at my home, just crosstown from the Sheraton. All ADS'ers, mutual follows, &c. are welcome. Email for address & please RT/forward.
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In the unlikely event that there are any mutuals still left who need an invite code for the better place, HMU.
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Alexa define "sunk cost fallacy"
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We've decided to re-label the "anime" subject to "comics"; this is now a broad category including anything about or deriving from comics in any sense (comic books, anime/manga, newspaper comics, etc.). This category needs significant expansion. https://t.co/XO3DLD7pRL
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Happy Corduroy Appreciation Day: 11/11, the date most resembling corduroy! Adherents, you know what to do!
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One in six writers secretly _______ (despises, despise) the semicolon.
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Still working on that important group of entries, but meanwhile, here are big antedatings of _shuttle_ (1940 to 1930) and _shuttlecraft_ (1967 to 1953) (also cleaned up both entries): https://t.co/YBxeoCbi5B
https://t.co/Ie5eQPeE7U
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Small but nice antedating o'the day: "light-speed", specifically as a unit of measure, from John W. Campbell in 1932 to Edmond Hamilton in 1929: https://t.co/6Z8tMqJdkN
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My wife and I are doing research on some of the challenges writers are facing right now in their everyday work. If you’re a writer, or if your work involves a fair amount of daily writing, would you consider taking a 2-minute survey? Thanks all!
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Absolutely outstanding performance from @GweniferRaymond yesterday; wish she'd played a full set, not just as an opener. Also wish she had a gig in NYC proper so I could see her again!
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Perhaps of interest to some followers: @SwannGalleries is auctioning a 1st U.S. edition (second issue) of the Savoy Cocktail Book. https://t.co/Gk0YyHBUfB
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