Writing

Yeah, I write book jawns

And some other jawns (an incomplete list)

For The Boston Globe:

• Language nerds worked really hard on that ‘Words of the Year’ list (Dec. 18, 2018)
• Fake meat needs a better name (Nov. 2018)
• The long, long history—and bright future–of the genderless ‘they’ (Sept. 8, 2018)

I was briefly an opinion columnist, God help us all:

• America’s Uncivil War Over Words (NYTimes, Apr. 2017)
• When Trump warns about ‘bad hombres,’ it’s our job to explain what he means (Washington Post, Oct. 2016)
• Slang for the Ages (NYTimes, Oct. 2014)
• and I was once a regular contributor to The Guardian, even though they couldn’t figure out how to spell my last name (bleedin’ Yanks, innit?)

They even let me review books (suckers!):

• Lost, and Found, in Translation (in NYTimes, Apr. 2022)
• Arch fiends in paradise (in Times Literary Supplement, Mar. 2020)
• Sexist lexicography (in Times Literary Supplement, Dec. 2018)