Ben Zimmer

Linguist, Person

1971 –

82

Who is Ben Zimmer?

Benjamin Zimmer is an American linguist, lexicographer, and language commentator. He is the executive producer of the Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com, and is a language columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He was formerly a language columnist for The Boston Globe and The New York Times Magazine, and editor of American dictionaries at Oxford University Press.

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Born
1971
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Nationality
  • United States of America
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Education
  • University of Chicago
  • Yale University
Employment
  • Oxford University Press
  • University of Pennsylvania

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on July 23, 2013

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