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Grant Barrett | |
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![]() Grant Barrett recording his radio show A Way with Words | |
Born | 1970 (age 53–54) |
Alma mater | Columbia University |
Occupation(s) | Lexicographer, author, radio show host |
Website | grantbarrett |
Grant Barrett (born 1970) is an American lexicographer, specializing in slang, jargon and new usage, and the author and compiler of language-related books and dictionaries. He is a co-host and co-producer of the American weekly, hour-long public radio show and podcast A Way with Words.[1][2] He has made regular appearances on Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Radio,[3] is often consulted as a language commentator, and has written for The New York Times and The Washington Post, and served as a lexicographer for Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press.