Ben Zimmer
American linguist and lexicographer
- Born
- 1971
- Birth name
- Benjamin Zimmer
Benjamin Zimmer (born 1971) is an American linguist, lexicographer, and language commentator. He is a contributing editor for The Atlantic. He was formerly a language columnist for The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and The New York Times Magazine, and the editor of American dictionaries at Oxford University Press. Zimmer was also an executive editor of Vocabulary.com and VisualThesaurus.com.
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