Benjamin Zimmer (born 1971)[1] is an American linguist, lexicographer, and language commentator. He is a language columnist for The Wall Street Journal and contributing editor for The Atlantic. He was formerly a language columnist for The Boston Globe and The New York Times Magazine, and editor of American dictionaries at Oxford University Press. Zimmer was also an executive editor of Vocabulary.com and VisualThesaurus.com.[2][3][4]
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are settled, resulting in a lack of case law. In The Atlantic, linguist BenZimmer described the casting couch as "a metonym for the skewed sexual politics...
after a person named "Don Gall", which spawned an urban legend. Linguist BenZimmer noted that the claim was likely a by-product of their "tongue-in-cheek"...
and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made. Da Capo Press. p. 548. BenZimmer (26 June 2009). "Ma ma se, ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa". Language Log. Retrieved...
disparage "folk who are lagging behind".[further explanation needed] Linguist BenZimmer writes that, with mainstream currency, the term's "original grounding...
difficult to pinpoint. According to a Wall Street Journal article written by BenZimmer, The Yale law librarian Fred Shapiro came up with the new earliest use...
Groupings" by Stowe Boyd, on August 26, 2007, according to lexicographer BenZimmer, chair of the American Dialect Society's New Words Committee. Messina's...
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Spieler, Selecting a President (Macmillan, 2012), p. 41. Norrander, p. 25. BenZimmer (June 10, 2008), "The Presumptive Nominee, I Presume?", Thinkmap Visual...
myths: debunking linguistic urban legends, p. 162. ISBN 0-19-517284-1 BenZimmer, "Corporate Etymologies",The Jimmies Story", The Boston Globe, March 13...
anchors were called "cronkiters" in Swedish has been debunked by linguist BenZimmer. Anchors occupy a contestable role in news broadcasts. Some argue anchors...
initial critic. According to lexicographer BenZimmer, the term originated in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. Zimmer cites a 1974 letter by history teacher...
2020-11-17. Helen Herman (March 10, 1931). "A-Muse-ings". Daily Orange. BenZimmer (April 23, 2012). "Tracking Down the Roots of a "Super" Word". Visual...
"woke" in a run-off election. The president of the vote, sociolinguist BenZimmer, reasoned that people used the word to describe the unpleasant year in...
computers preventive maintenance for an aging computer". The New York Times. BenZimmer (April 18, 2010). "Wellness". The New York Times. Complaints about preventative...
Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Politics portal Cultural references to pigs BenZimmer, Who First Put 'Lipstick on a Pig'? Slate.com 10 September 2008 Gibbons...
' Dave laughed and agreed that the pretty girl was the right choice." BenZimmer notes that the syncopation of "goo-goo-ga-joob" in John Lennon's song...
contributed more than 1300 installments to the column. Safire was succeeded by BenZimmer, who wrote the column until its final edition on February 25, 2011. About...
misspelling Spoonerism Tom Swifty BenZimmer. "Jottings on the 'Jamaica' joke", Language Log, 14 September 2008. Although Zimmer was not able to trace it to...
ridicule for mistakes deemed "eminently mockable". According to linguist BenZimmer, the most probable origin of this usage is Blazing Star (1998), a Japanese...
is not itself a morpheme. Phonesthemes "fascinate some linguists", as BenZimmer has phrased it, in a process that can become "mystical" or "unscientific"...
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