This Web site is run by Jesse Sheidlower, Editor-at-Large of the Oxford English Dictionary. It is currently being rewritten, so please excuse the missing entries, broken links, etc.
Introduction
As far as I can separate my professional from my personal life, this is my personal site. Please click the links at the top of this page for whatever you're looking for.
SF site
This site also hosts the Science Fiction Citation project of the Oxford English Dictionary at http://www.jessesword.com/sf.
Site info
I used to be an editor in the Reference Department at Random House, and from 1996 to the time I left in 1999 I wrote a language column called "Jesse's Word of the Day," which was based at this current Web address (i.e. jessesword.com). A book based on these columns also referred to this address in its title. After I left Random House, the column was retitled "Mavens' Word of the Day," with entries written by other editors.
Those columns remain the property of Random House, and I do not have the right to put them up on this site. The Random House Reference Department was disbanded in November 2001, and the archive of the Word of the Day site was, until recently (mid-2007), still being supported. However that archive is now down. If you are looking for the column, you can still find it in The Internet Archive. Unsigned entries before October 1999 were written by me; signed entries after that date were written by the named editor.