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‘Way With Words’ host to speak Thursday at SUNY Potsdam

Posted 4/25/12

POTSDAM -- Grant Barrett, lexicographer and co-host of National Public Radio's "A Way with Words," presents a free lecture Thursday, April 26 at 8 p.m. in Dunn Dance Theater at SUNY Potsdam. The …

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‘Way With Words’ host to speak Thursday at SUNY Potsdam

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POTSDAM -- Grant Barrett, lexicographer and co-host of National Public Radio's "A Way with Words," presents a free lecture Thursday, April 26 at 8 p.m. in Dunn Dance Theater at SUNY Potsdam. The public is invited.

The language-related radio show is broadcast weekly around the world.

Barrett has compiled and edited the "Official Dictionary of Unofficial English" and the "Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang" and maintains the prize-winning online Double-Tongued Dictionary, which tracks slang, jargon and neologisms from the fringes of English.

He is also a co-founder of Wordnik, an online dictionary.