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| death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = Americans>American| citizenship = | other_names = | occupation = | period = | known_for = | title = | boards = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = jessesword.com}}University of ChicagoUniversity of Cambridge>Cambridge University}}| alma_mater = | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences = | era = | discipline = Lexicography| sub_discipline = | workplaces = Columbia University| doctoral_students = | notable_students = | main_interests = The F-Word (book)>The F-Word, Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction| notable_ideas = | influenced = | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }}Jesse Sheidlower{{efn |/ˈʃaɪd.laʊər/; the syllables rhyme with "side hour".WEB, Podcast,weblink 22: Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction (with Jesse Sheidlower), Midgley, Daniel, Skirgård, Hedvig, Ainslie, Ben, 17 March 2021, 03:51 (first occurrence), Because Language, 12 May 2021, }} (born August 5, 1968) is a lexicographer, editor, author, and programmer. He is past president of the American Dialect Society,WEB, Barrett, Ron, Move Over, Wikipedia. Dictionaries Are Hot Again.,weblink The New York Times, 28 January 2021, 11 February 2017, was the project editor of the Random House Dictionary of American Slang, and is the author of The F-Word, a history of the word "fuck"; he is also a former editor-at-large at the Oxford English Dictionary.WEB, Saroyan, Strawberry, The new wave of lexicographers,weblink The New York Times, 28 January 2021, 24 March 2005, New York Magazine named him one of the 100 smartest people in New York, and he serves as a judge for the annual "literary-celeb-studded"WEB, Fradkin, Lori, 'Village Voice'r Outspells Famous Novelists,weblink New York Magazine, 28 January 2021, 31 October 2006, Council of Literary Magazines and Presses spelling bee. He is currently an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University.Sheidlower was a language consultant for Amazon's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, and in January 2021, he launched the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction, a website tracing the origin of terms in science fiction literature.WEB, Schuessler, Jennifer, Tracking the Vocabulary of Sci-Fi, from Aerocar to Zero-Gravity,weblink The New York Times, 28 January 2021, 26 January 2021,

Biography

Sheidlower attended the University of Chicago.WEB, Search for meanings: Jesse Sheidlower, AB'89, collects words and their usages for the next incarnation of the Oxford English Dictionary,weblink University of Chicago Magazine, 28 January 2021, He was interested in astrophysics as a child and intended to major in science, but switched to classics and English. After graduating from Chicago, he studied early English in the department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Cambridge.Although not a computer programmer by training, Sheidlower introduced Perl to the North American offices of Oxford University Press and developed tools for data manipulation when no programmers were available.Perl Enters The Oxford English Dictionary He is also one of the core developers of Catalyst, a popular Perl web development framework.From 1996 to 1999 Sheidlower worked for Random House as a senior editor, where he initiated their "Word of the Day" internet page, answering questions about lexicography. In 1999, the Oxford English Dictionary hired him to manage their newly opened North American Office, based in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.JOURNAL, October 8, 1999, Hot Type, Chronicle of Higher Education, A24, From 1999 until 2005, Sheidlower was Principal North American Editor at the Oxford English Dictionary; then until 2013 he was editor-at-large focusing on North American usage.OED Former Staff PageWhile at the OED he managed the Science Fiction Citations project, a program to capture citations of science fiction words such as "alien", "robot", and "cyberspace". The project began in 2001 and was hosted at Sheidlower's personal website.Prucher (2007), pp. ix, xv. In 2021, Sheidlower launched the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction website, an expansion of the earlier Citations project.MAGAZINE, Rogers, Adam, A New Way to Trace the History of Sci-Fi's Made-Up Words,weblink WIRED, 28 January 2021, 27 January 2021, Sheidlower is an expert amateur cook and collects both cookbooks and bar paraphernalia; Food & Wine Magazine has written about his "famous Manhattan dinner parties".WEB, Hayes, Jonathan, The Definition of a Perfect Host,weblink Food & Wine, 28 January 2021, 31 March 2015, He is one of the two proprietors of the Threesome Tollbooth, a cocktail bar in Williamsburg, New York, which is only large enough for the bartender and two guests.MAGAZINE, Goldfield, Hannah, October 12, 2017, The Top-Secret New York Bar That's Only Big Enough for Two Customers,weblink August 15, 2020, The New Yorker, en-us, WEB, Buchanan, Matt, November 10, 2017, Definitely Don't Go to Threesome Tollbooth, Not at All,weblink August 15, 2020, Eater NY, en, He has been consulted on both the linguisticsWEB, Zimmer, Ben, Can 'Bespoke' Give iPhones British Chic?,weblink The Wall Street Journal, 28 January 2021, 13 September 2013, and logisticsWEB, Idov, Michael, Me, My Suit, and I,weblink New York Magazine, 28 January 2021, 16 August 2007, of the well-tailored suit.Sheidlower has written against the censorship of obscenities in news coverage and court cases, arguing that a reliance on euphemisms can impede accurate reporting, deprive readers of integral information, and obscure the realities of racism, sexism, and homophobia.WEB, Sheidlower, Jesse, The Case for Profanity in Print,weblink The New York Times, 28 January 2021, 30 March 2014, WEB, Liptak, Adam, Must It Always Be About Sex?,weblink The New York Times, 28 January 2021, 1 November 2008,

Works

• The F-Word, 1995
• Jesse's Word of the Day, 1998

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