PDF Official Dictionary Unofficial English - A Way with Words

The

Official

Dictionary

of

Unofficial

English

A Crunk Omnibus for Thrillionaires

and Bampots for the Ecozoic Age

Grant Barrett

Copyright ? 2006 by Grant Barrett. All rights reserved.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Grant Barrett is an American lexicographer and dictionary editor specializing in slang

and new words. He is part of the team of lexicographers that make the new

online dictionary possible. Grant is also co-host of the American languagerelated public radio show "A Way With Words" and

editor of the "Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang" (2004, Oxford University

Press), and is well-known for his prize-winning online Double-Tongued Dictionary. Besides

being a widely quoted language authority, Grant has written on language for such newspapers

as the Washington Post and the New York Times, has contributed to the British book series

"The Language Report," and is a public speaker about dictionaries and slang. He also writes

a fortnightly column about English-language slang for the Malaysia Star, a bi-monthly

dictionary update for the journal Copyediting, and has worked as a business and music

journalist. He serves as vice president of the American Dialect Society, an academic

organization devoted since 1889 to the study of English in North America. He also is chair

of its New Words Committee, edits the "Among the New Words" column of the society's

journal American Speech, is a member of the journal's editorial review board, and helps

organize the society's annual "word of the year" vote. He is also a member of the Dictionary

Society of North America and the Linguistic Society of America.

Contents

Acknowledgments

iv

Introduction

v

About This Dictionary

xii

Changing English

xviii

Dictionary

1

Select Bibliography

407

Full-Text Digital Resources

410

For Further Information

411

iii

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Erin McKean for her guidance, wisdom, and humor, and

to Jonathan Lighter for demonstrating worthy models of both lexicography and a lexicographer. Special thanks to Laurence Urdang

and the Dictionary Society of North America for their grant in support of my web site. For their suggestions, corrections, additions,

notes, comments, and other help, thanks also are deserved by Gustavo Arellano, Nathan Bierma, Bill Brogdon, David Barnhart, Carlos Caga-anan II, Hunter Cutting, Jamie Davis, Paul Deppler, Steve

Dodson, Connie Eble, Cathy Giffi, Yesenia Gutierrez, Sonya

Kolowrat, Margaret Marks, Yisrael Medad, Bill Mullins, Johnny

North, Mark Peters, Barry Popik, James Proctor, Michael Quinion,

William Safire, Strawberry Saroyan, Jesse Sheidlower, Ava Swartz,

Michael Volf, Steven I. Weiss, Douglas Wilson, David Wilton, Ben

Zimmer, the online communities at and Word

, and everyone on ADS-L, the American Dialect Society e-mail list. You all make it easier.

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