Jesse Sheidlower

Jesse Sheidlower is a lexicographer who specializes in slang and obscenity. He was Editor at Large of the Oxford English Dictionary, where he was chiefly responsible for North American English. He is a past president of the American Dialect Society, the scholarly organization dedicated to the study of the English language in North America. He has written for a wide variety of scholarly and popular publications, including The New Yorker, the New York Times, the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, American Speech, Dictionaries (journal of the Dictionary Society of North America), and the Journal of English Linguistics. He is also the author of The F-Word, a full-length historical dictionary dedicated to the word fuck, and the editor of the online Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction (link: https://sfdictionary.com).