Lexicographer, grammarian, lawyer, writer.
Demography nerd at Pew Research Center
Global religious change, sociology
That Word Chat is an online chat show featuring people and things lexical, hosted by @editormark.bsky.social.
Website: thatwordchat.com
YouTube: bit.ly/ThatWordVideo
Linguist, knitter, clavichord enthusiast, fountain pen collector, inventor of languages (conlangs)
CGNU founder, alum, and exiled drop-out
Online Etymology Dictionary
The AP Stylebook is widely used as a writing and editing reference in newsrooms, classrooms and corporate offices worldwide. We offer a full suite of products to help you stay in style, whether on your desktop, laptop, smartphone or tablet.
Former copyeditor/writer for many fine folks and publications, current bookseller/social media editor for Hartfield Book Co., around the web as PurplePenning
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This official profile is maintained by experts at the American Psychological Association. We share tips about how to format a paper, create APA Style references in seventh edition (#APA7), write with concise and bias-free language, and more.
apastyle.org
Saturday Evening Post managing editor, clarinetist, mediocre pianist, writer, and lapsed peevologist.
He who sows thorns should not go barefoot.
The venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar. An indispensable reference, informing the editorial canon with sound, definitive advice at cmos.style/ONLINE. We answer your “Chicago Style” questions at cmos.style/QandA.
Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
News and announcements from the Modern Language Association. If you have a question for MLA staff members, please visit http://mla.org/About-Us/Contact
Author: Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
Also: Word Freak, A Few Seconds of Panic, Wild & Outside
Ex: Hang Up and Listen, WSJ, NPR, AP, Daily Pennsylvanian, Pel Mel
The UK’s only chartered body for the editorial profession. Championing excellence. Supporting growth. Connecting professionals. Shaping the future. https://www.ciep.uk/directory.html
Patriotic American. Former US Attorney, SDNY. Banned by Putin. Fired by Trump.
Nevertheless she persisted in posting literary hot takes, knitting, and cats
Man of letters.
🔤 Hoefler&Co Founder & Director Emeritus
🎬 Netflix “Abstract,” S02 E06
jonathanhoefler.com
The Linguistic Society of America supports the scientific study of language and shares interesting linguistic stories. Join the LSA today!
The American Dialect Society is dedicated to the study of language in North America. Linguists, lexicographers, educators, students, enthusiasts, and more. https://americandialect.org/
Author, editor, dad, fly fisherman.
technical editor, historical linguist, 2D cartoon person
http://www.encyclopediabriannica.com/
https://bit.ly/briannica
Middle-school English teacher. Former dictionary editor and spokesperson. I write about etymology at mashedradish.com.
noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
EFA freelancers include editors, writers, indexers, proofreaders, researchers, desktop publishers, translators. Free job listing service. Courses & webinars for members & guests. https://linktr.ee/efa_editors
📚 The quarterly linguistics magazine for all language lovers
📖 Available in print and digital 🖥️
🔗 babelzine.co.uk
Author "Gobsmacked!”; “About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made"; "Will Rogers: A Biography"; "How To Not Write Bad" etc.
Former lexicographer and Brooklynite. Current product director and UK-based USian.
Psycholinguist, and the guy who used to write Motivated Grammar. He/him.
Erstwhile blogger: https://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com
Prosecute ICE and send Homan to the Hague.
I'm a linguist & sr lecturer at Metropolia Uni. PhD in linguistics and marketing. I like #language & #linguistics, hockey, baseball and comic books - but maybe not in that order :)
https://eviljoemcveigh.com
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.
OED researcher. Professor, film and American Studies. Writer. I expect to die without seeing the Jets win the Super Bowl.
Keith Houston's blog about unusual marks of punctuation. Author of SHADY CHARACTERS, THE BOOK, EMPIRE OF THE SUM and now FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY: A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMOJI (https://shadycharacters.co.uk/books/).
Assistant professor of English (concentration in Writing, Editing, and Publishing) at the University of Northern Colorado.
Tech writing & editing (update: now retired), language & words, occasional cats.
Friday words when the mood strikes me (and when it's Friday): https://mikepopewords.com/
We are the nation’s leading organization of editing professionals, educators, and students. Follow us for #editing news, events, & training. https://linktr.ee/aceseditors
dour bureaucrat at a public broadcaster
Sweary stuff about swearing from a group of linguists, lexicographers, and language lovers. Strong Language blog: https://stronglang.wordpress.com
Skeets by @sesquiotic.bsky.social & @stancarey.bsky.social
Former @BYU_FacultyEdit on the bird app. ADHD. Tired. Elder millennial. Both Gerald and Piggie, somehow.
Hoping to be brave enough to join the conversation. she/her
You may know me better as a bird.
The bird with the words. // Obscure words, etymology & language facts // New book A WINTER DICTIONARY, a collection of obscure words for the festive season, is OUT NOW! // New look website haggardhawks.com launching soon...
Public radio's lively language show! On-air in US, free podcast worldwide. https://waywordradio.org words@waywordradio.org. Toll-free US/Canada 24/7 1-877-929-9673 or https://wa.me/16198004443 #linguistics #etymology #podcast #books #language
Comics? On the INTERNET?? On WWW DOT BSKY DOT APP??
opinions are not my own and represent those of your sainted mother. she/her.
Copy editor, proofreader, deputy editorial manager at Dragonfly Editorial. Oxford comma agnostic. What you learned in ninth-grade English might be wrong. He/him.
used to be a lexamateur, now i’m a lexapro
Attorney. Interested in law and language.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1345493
Historian of religion, race, + society.
Author, Connections: Early American Methodism in the Revolutionary Atlantic World (forthcoming, Cornell UP).
Editor, Journal of Mormon History.
Co-editor, Missionary Interests (Cornell UP, 2024).
International law, books, food, Canberra, longing for a beach.
linguistiks knitting kids kats ceramiks and everything with /k/ or 'k', I just decided
she/her
Public scholar of the Bible and religion
For speaking requests: live@thewatermarkagency.com
Wording at Wordnik until the words stop.
Retired Baltimore Sun editor, flaneur. Author of “The Old Editor Says” and “Bad Advice.” Kentuckian transplanted to Baltimore.
ACES-certified editor, dissident, void-screamer. #slogan #slogan #bumpersticker
/'dʑowɪn/
• taalkundige | linguist
• schrijver van 'Die goeie ouwe taal' en 'Woord voor woord' | author
• all graphics and videos: http://tumblr.com/yvanspijk
• Patreon: patreon.com/yvanspijk
• photo by Dirk-Jan van Dijk
Sociolinguist, dialectologist, person who has uttered the phrase "chain shift" too many times.
Dictionary ambassador, Merriam-Webster.
adventurer, animal lover, crafter, dictionary collector, editor @Merriam-Webster.com, linguist, logician, tree hugger | she/her | Look sharp ya dumbass.
Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Professor of Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham, Studying Language Variation and Change
Welsh linguist in Philadelphia. I grow languages in the lab. Opinions my own. He.
Ieithydd o Gymro yn Philadelphia. Tyfaf ieithoedd yn y lab. Barnau fy hun. Fo.
https://linktr.ee/garicgymro
"That etymology guy". Linguist, broadcaster, writer, researcher, language fanatic. 'Why Q Needs U' (https://geni.us/WhyQNeedsU) an Economist book of 2025. Host of ALILI podcast. Website: https://dannybate.com/. Inquiries: jaime@jpmarshall.co.uk
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Explorations of Etymology / Historical Linguistics. Usually on Fridays.
www.aidanem.com
Tips: https://ko-fi.com/aidanem
Subscription: https://www.patreon.com/aidanem
Editor, writer, lapsed biologist in the west of Ireland
Copy-editing, writing: https://stancarey.com
Language: https://stancarey.wordpress.com
Strong language: https://stronglang.wordpress.com
🎞 https://letterboxd.com/stancarey
🦣 @stancarey@mastodon.ie
Reader in Critical Applied Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University. Documenting and dismantling linguistic injustice in schools. Editor, Critical Studies in Education. Leverhulme Prize 2025.
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/staff/profile/dr-ian-cushing
Psych Nurse, special needs mom, trekkie, baker, edgedancer, cognitive scientist
Simultaneously a wave and a particle.
Project editor, copyeditor, and recovered academic. (I help make books happen.) She/her.
Drummer, singer, traffic safety data pro, neologist
Focusing on the origins of words and phrases and their cultural context since 1997, plus astrophotography and dog pics/videos. Run by Dave Wilton (he/him).
Part-time editor, full-time toddler jungle gym. Cats, birbs, kids, and words.
Asst Prof (Old English & Old Norse). Book TRANSLATING HELL (2026). Phil-lol-ogist, word-lover, pun-makar, collector of dictionaries, glamorer of grammar.
Dogs and anti-fascism. Star Trek etc. Music nerdery. Flowers. Politics. Exmo adjacent. Ally in training.
USA
Whatever I think of whenever I think of it
Lifelong Democrat and liberal Jew
Maternal-child nurse and breastfeeding specialist
I love mosses, lichens, dancing, Doctor Who and other scifi and fantasy.
#Leguminati. Bluesky since '23
✡️ 🫘
He / him. Expect a mix of energy sector, data science / machine learning, hobby interests, and probably some politics.
Editor and language guy at The Economist.
Author of Writing With Style: The Economist Guide (2023).
https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Style-Economist-Guide-Books/dp/1639364374
Linguist
Senior Lecturer, La Trobe University
gesture/grammar/✨emoji/#lingcomm
Podcast: @lingthusiasm
Masto: superlinguo@scicomm.xyz
Blog: superlinguo.com
She/her(/they)
Slang Lexicographer.
https://greensdictofslang.com
https://thetimelinesofslang.tumblr.com
https://jonathongreen.substack.com
gently painting genre (and sometimes lit fic) into a corner; he/him
[also: music on bandcamp as Will Esplin]
frozenseapress.com
Too online. Dad. Married (lucky). Democrat (progressive). ADHD.
As a medical editor, language - usage - lexicography - culture - memes - all meet someplace. And that place appears to be my desk.
Fiction & essays, novel in progress. Co-owner @federalstbooks.bsky.social . Candlepin bowler. Language stuff. A lot of crank air. Used to write the dictionary.
Western Massachusetts.
needlecrafter, dancer, baker, Mainer, she/her
PhD in Linguistics, now doing non-ac qual research
The cartoonist, not the “Yes, Dear” guy
Nedroid.com
A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics! By @gretchenmcculloch.com and @superlinguo.bsky.social
"Fascinating" -NYT
"Joyously nerdy" -Buzzfeed
lingthusiasm.com
Not sure where to start? Try our silly personality quiz: bit.ly/lingthusiasmquiz
Risky & Chaotic
She/her
Former Minneapolitan knocking around Toronto
