Grant Barrett

Grant Barrett

Grant Barrett is a lexicographer and editor who's worked on dictionaries for Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, and Collins. He compiles Copyediting's Dictionary Update feature, is part of the annual new words vote held by the American Dialect Society, and publishes an annual "buzzwords of the year" list in the New York Times. Currently, he's an editor at voiceofsandiego.org, a nonprofit news and investigative reporting outfit and co-host of the public radio program A Way with Words.

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