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Tech writing & editing, language & words, occasional cats

Friday words when the mood strikes me (and when it's Friday): https://mikepopewords.com/

Bestselling writer of The Magicians trilogy, The Silver Arrow, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things and The Bright Sword (out July 2024!)

This is Free Trader Beowulf, calling anyone . . .

Linguist (revitalization, documentation, sociolinguistics) but also not a professional account so I’m gonna say cuss words 🤷‍♀️ she/her

Artist, author, lexicographer, solo parent
Oxford, UK
(she/her)
www.imogenfoxell.com

director of creative research @ the metro ny library council; faculty @ a 🫣 conglomerate (2004-22: @thenewschool)

architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++

philly + nyc

wordsinspace.net

linguistics, mostly

Correct crossword opinions / aka Michael Sharp / Teaching lit stuff at Binghamton University

SnoozeInBrief on Twitter. Also on some other sites. Now on this one. What a life.

I FIGHT FOR THE USERS.

He/him.

I read, snowboard, cook, drive cars too fast, and build software that helps people. Not at the same time.

I'm a linguist & teacher at Jyväskylä Uni. I'm writing my PhD in marketing and linguistics at the University of Helsinki. I like #language & #linguistics, hockey, baseball and comic books - but maybe not in that order :)

https://eviljoemcveigh.com/

adventurer, book lover, crafter, dictionary collector, editor at Merriam-Webster, linguist, logician, mom of a teen and a tot | she/her | Look sharp ya dumbass.

Professor at NYU | Phonetics, Language Acquisition, CogSci | co-editor Laboratory Phonology | ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi

journalist, author of Culture Warlords, sword collector, schmoe. newsletter:
buttondown.email/theswordandthesandwich

contact: [email protected]

Durham Classicist (languages, Linear B, epigraphy, archaeology). Member of WCC and WIASN. Blogging at http://itsallgreektoanna.wordpress.com. She/her

Your favorite medievalist's favorite medievalist. Books: The Poet and the Antiquaries: Chaucerian Scholarship and the Rise of Literary History (Penn 2019), John Lydgate's Dance of Death and Related Works (TEAMS 2019)

Academic; writer. Eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky

Author of Enthusiasm and The Grimm Legacy series
Frequent baker of popovers
Collector of mourning stickpins, portrait miniatures, and 18th-century sugar tongs

As a medical editor, language - usage - lexicography - culture - memes - all meet someplace. And that place appears to be my desk.

Crime Lady. NYT Crime & Mystery columnist. Author, SCOUNDREL and THE REAL LOLITA. Editor, UNSPEAKABLE ACTS and EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN.

Next nonfiction book (in a few years): WITHOUT CONSENT

http://www.linktr.ee/sarahweinman

I write romance & scifi/fantasy about bisexuals of various genders + a newsletter about words & books called Word Suitcase. PhD in French literature, non-practicing intellectual. Bi, she/they, feliciadavin.com

Poet, Musician, Editor at Merriam-Webster // Words in Prairie Schooner, Poetry, EcoTheo, Blue Mountain Review, Bad Lilies, Kenyon Review, Bennington Review, Columba, more // he/him // MichaelMetivier.com

marsh gas enthusiast

Digital Scholarship @CWRU; former literature prof with two dogs and a lot of yarn; cares deeply about data, books, and bookish data; she/they 🏳️‍🌈

Senior Acquisitions Editor, Linguistics - De Gruyter Mouton (formerly with OUP). Emotional support human for Murphy and Millie.

I write stuff and occasionally eat meat. Repped by Kent D. Wolf at Neon Literary

The American Dialect Society is dedicated to the study of language in North America. Linguists, lexicographers, educators, students, enthusiasts, and more. https://americandialect.org/

Writer of books, most recently Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy. Also Ghostland, The Unidentified, Afterlives of the Saints, Cranioklepty. He/him.

Mostly retired editor/writer/Boston Globe language columnist; author of centenary edition of Ambrose Bierce's "Write It Right" (Walker, 2009), whose subtitle is too long for this space. Not the Massachusetts poet who shares my name.

I don’t think I’ve been lost. she/her

And a book(!): SPLENDID ANATOMIES (Shirley Jackson Award Finalist, 2022)

https://www.allisonwyss.com

National bestseller D-DAY GIRLS: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win WWII and FOR ALL THE TEA IN CHINA (prh.com/DDayGirls)

Deadlines are my lifeline! Solo copyeditor (academic, scholarly, textbooks, trade nonfiction) and proofreader (any genre!). 🍩 appreciator. Enthusiastic New Jerseyan 🤌🏻 user. Trivial Democratic apparatchik. He/him.

Storyteller about storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
Associate Professor of English.
Words at Polygon, LA Review of Books, & more. Next book: HOW STORIES ARE PLAYED (on #TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performances)
www.ecfriedman.com

I’m an Associate Professor of Classics at Columbia University. I teach and study Latin, Roman stuff, book history stuff, and I’m involved in our gen-ed literature course, Literature Humanities. Be cool

Linguist by day, foodie by night.

Inveterate reader and book-recommender, PI of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Online project, mom of three, opinions my own, also on 🧵

Your man at the OED

Puzzles, ties, music, frivolity. Puzzlewright Press in the streets, AVCX in the singly-printed sheets. He/they.

Product Director at Oxford Languages, Oxford University Press. Personal account.

Linguist, anthropologist, all around mouthy person. Queen’s U, Kingston, Ontario.

“Frigidly shy at the commencement of a party, confusingly vigilant about the middle, and insultingly weary towards the end.”

“Combine[s] stateliness with a desperate effort to be funny.”

Pronouns: accustomed to he, also fine with they

Wording at Wordnik until the words stop.

Medievalist, #Digital Lexicographer, Editor of the Anglo-Norman Dictionary at Aberystwyth University. Digital Medievalist executive board member. #Medieval Francophonie enthusiast.

Always in the Corner

Dictionaries, occasional medievalism, profound incompetence in the face of social media