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A WORDY CELEBRATION OF ALL THINGS LEXICAL,
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Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Episode 79: Jesse Sheidlower

Jesse Sheidlower has been researching the historic and present use of one of the most adaptable, volatile, vilified words in the English language. ​This month, Oxford University Press releases a major revision of Sheidlower's The F-Word.

Sheidlower joined us in 2021 to talk about the previous editions of The F-Word, along with being a lexicographer in COVID-quieted New York City and a bartender at a tiny concept bar in Brooklyn, The Threesome TollboothSince then, in 2021, he gave us the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction, an online resource.

​The fourth edition of The F-Word sheds new light on the words historical origins in print and includes more than 2,500 new quotations and 150 antedatings of various uses. It also has more than 150 new entries.

Sheidlower was editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary from 1999 to 2013. He has served as president of the American Dialect Society, and he teaches lexicography at Columbia University. He has written about language for a wide range of publications, websites, and scholarly journals.

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Past chats

TWC 76: Karen Yin, author of The Conscious Style Guide, a "roadmap for writing and speaking with sensitivity and awareness"

TWC 75: Cory Doctorow, prolific science fiction author, activist and journalist, on his books, and monopolies in tech and publishing

TWC 74: Erin Brenner winner of the ACES Robinson Prize and author of The Chicago Guide for Freelance Editors

TWC 73: Russell Harper, principal reviser of The Chicago Manual of Style, with a preview of the new 18th edition, live from ACES 2024 in San Diego

TWC 71: Maggie Smith and Connie Schultz, two accomplished Ohio writers in different genres and first-time children’s book authors

Word Masters


Lisa Johnson     Kate Karp    Merrill Perlman    Tom Pfeifer    Carol Pickerine

Word Lovers

Ann Bourne    DeAnna Burghart    Mignon Fogarty

Word Nerds

TWC 77: Danica Salazar of the Oxford English Dictionary, talking about new entries reflecting Australian English

Rebecca Benner

Patty Boyd

Hilary Cadman

Elizabeth d'Anjou

Mary-Jane Doherty

Susan Fitzgerald

James Gallagher

Rosemary Gretton

Rachel Herbert

Neil Holdway

Kristine Hunt

Susan Karcz

Beverly Michaels

Amanda Miller

Voncille Meyer

Mary Norris

Lori Paximadis

Dayna Reidenouer

Deb Ring

Alice Steinke

Sue Toth

Laura Weisman

Karen Wise

Karyn Zafran

TWC 78: Ben Yagoda, author of "Gobsmacked: The British Invasion of American English," talking about English expressions making their way to the U.S.

Word Fans


Christina Allen

Betty Ann Bardell

Donna Marks Pleasant

Jeanette Fast Redmond

Amy Schneider

TWC 70: Words of the Year 2023, a discussion of the words that typified 2023, featuring one of the greatest panels of wordsters ever assembled

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TWC 67: Daniel Heuman, CEO of Intelligent Editing, on the future of artificial intelligence in editing and a look at a new AI tool for writers

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TWC 63: Roy Peter Clark, America’s writing coach talks about his latest book, Tell It Like It Is: A Guide to Clear and Honest Writing

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TWC 60: Gael Spivak, on the International Organization for Standardization's new standards for plain language

TWC 59: Words of the Year 2022, featuring an international panel of linguists and lexicographers

TWC 58: Joshua Blackburn, game designer and quizmaster and a chance to play the new League of the Lexicon

TWC 53: The brothers Zimmer, Ben and Carl, talking about writing about words and science

TWC 56: Kelly Wright, a sociolinguist specializing in linguistic discrimination and its institutional outcomes 

TWC 52: Danica Salazar of the Oxford English Dictionary and plans for the Oxford Dictionary of African American English

TWC 55: Ryan North, author, illustrator, supervillain consultant, polymath and creator of Dinosaur Comics and more

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TWC 54: Ellen Jovin, author of Rebel With A Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian

TWC 49: Anne Curzan, the voice of linguistics for Michigan Public Radio on the show That's What They Say

TWC 48: Half dozen guests representing the dictionaries and organizations that selected a word of the year for 2021

TWC 47: Our second annual foray into word puzzle, featuring four puzzle creators from The Inkubator

TWC 46: Paula Froke, editor of the Associated Press Stylebook, on the decision-making process at the influential guide

TWC 45: Fred Shapiro, editor of the updated edition of "The New Yale Book of Quotations"

TWC 44: Editor and sensitivity reader Crystal Shelley, creator of the Conscious Language Toolkits for Editors and Writers

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