Notes on Contributors
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Michael Adams is professor of English at Indiana University. His latest book, edited with Laurel J. Brinton and R. D. Fulk, is Studies in the History of the English Language VI: Evidence and Method in Histories of English (De Gruyter 2014). He is past-president of DSNA and editor emeritus of the quarterly journal American Speech yet he’s not without a future. His next book, In Praise of Profanity, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2016.
Ron Butters is professor emeritus of English and cultural anthropology at Duke University. His research interests include social and regional variation in American English, lexicography, and language and law, especially linguistic and semiotic analysis of trademarks, advertising, and other commercial uses of language. He is a former editor of the journal American Speech and a former president of the American Dialect Society, the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics, and the International Association of Forensic Linguists. He lives in Naples, Florida, with his husband Stewart Aycock and chihuahua Mr. Smith. He continues his legal consulting work, largely on matters concerning trademarks.
Tom Dalzell (BA, American Civilization, University of Pennsylvania, 1971) is a labor lawyer who for the last twenty years has studied and written about American slang. He is the author of Flappers 2 Rappers: American Youth Slang (Merriam-Webster 1996), The Slang of Sin (Merriam-Webster 1998), Damn the Man: The Slang of the Oppressed in America (Dover 2010), and Vietnam War Slang (Routledge 2014). He is the senior editor of The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (Routledge 2006) and the editor of The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English (Routledge 2009).
Peter Gilliver has been working on the Oxford English Dictionary since 1987. For much of that time he has also been researching and writing about the history of the project; his book The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary is due out soon (OUP 2016). He is the co-author (with fellow lexicographers Jeremy Marshall and Edmund Weiner) of The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary (2006), and he has written numerous articles and conference papers both on the history of the OED and on Tolkien.
Orin Hargraves is the author of several language reference books and a contributor to many dictionaries. He researches the computational [End Page 199] use of language at the University of Colorado at Boulder and also lectures there. He is a former president of the Dictionary Society of North America. His most recent book is It’s Been Said Before, a guide to the use and abuse of clichés.
Ilan Kernerman heads the Tel Aviv-based K Dictionaries, which develops lexicographic content in many languages and cooperates with publishing, technology, academic and other professional partners worldwide. He edits Kernerman Dictionary News, is co-editor of Lexicography in Asia (with Tom McArthur, 1998) and English Learners’ Dictionaries at the DSNA 2009 (with Paul Bogaards, 2010), and is guest co-editor (with Arleta Adamska-Sałaciak) of the forthcoming special issue on Bilingual Learners’ Dictionaries of the International Journal of Lexicography. Currently he is president of Asialex—The Asian Association for Lexicography—and associate editor of Lexicography – Journal of Asialex.
Adam Kilgarriff† (DPhil in computational linguistics, Sussex University) was Director of Lexical Computing Ltd. He led the development of Sketch Engine, a tool for corpus research used for dictionary-making at Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Collins, Le Robert, Macmillan, K Dictionaries, Trojina, and elsewhere (see https://www.sketchengine.co.uk). He worked at Longman Dictionaries, Oxford University Press, and the University of Brighton and was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Leeds. He was the founding chair of the Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Web as Corpus (ACL-SIGWAC), chaired the ACL-SIG on the lexicon, and served as a board member of EURALEX.
Steve Kleinedler is the executive editor for the Reference Group at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, publishers of the American Heritage Dictionaries and the Webster’s New World Dictionaries. He has been on the editorial staff of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language since 1997 and is currently its executive editor. He attended...
