Ben Zimmer
Subscriber since: December 2007
Location: New York, NY
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About Me
I'm executive producer of Visual Thesaurus and editor of the online magazine. You can find an archive of my Word Routes columns for the Visual Thesaurus here. I'm also a language columnist for The Boston Globe, former language columnist for the New York Times Magazine, and chair of the New Words Committee for the American Dialect Society. My official site is here, and you can follow me on Facebook and Twitter.
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omphaloskepsis
Navel-gazers, unite!
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mulct
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"Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used."
- David Lehman