If you want to know how a new word gets into Oxford dictionaries, or are interested more generally in the bubbling cauldron of modern English, check out the the first post of new blog from Oxford University Press, From A to Zimmer. That’s Zimmer as in Ben Zimmer, lexicographer, editor at Oxford University Press, and brother.
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Carl Zimmer writes about science regularly for the New York Times and magazines such as Discover, where he is a contributing editor and columnist.
He is the author of six books, the most recent of which is Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life. His website is carlzimmer.com and his address is [ blog at carlzimmer dot com ].
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June 28th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
That’s the first time I’d encountered “hangry.” That’s just too useful not to, uh…use.
June 28th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
ok, so there’s a B zimmer and a C zimmer. Got an A or a D?
June 29th, 2007 at 2:17 am
You and Gerald Durrell, always in the shadow of a more famous sibling.
BTW, saw your article on truly alien terrestrial life in the July Discover. Anything on the subject coming up here?
June 29th, 2007 at 10:06 am
On that grading scale, i’m in trouble. I can hear my folks saying: “You got an ‘S’?”.
Of course, i could reply that it was all their fault.
July 11th, 2007 at 6:22 am
Remarkable. And there was I, only yesterday, campaigning on behalf of the rambunctious anarchy of the English language against the siege and assault of the dismal trolls of regulation:
http://network.nature.com/blogs/user/U9556F6A5
I have bookmarked Brother Ben’s blog and will visit it regularly.
July 25th, 2007 at 8:18 am
Ha! I’ve been reading Language Log (and hence reading numerous Zimmerposts) for ages: I had no idea you were related! Small world…