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Books

• The F-Word, 2nd ed., 1999. New York: Random House.
  Thorough revision of the 1995 edition.
• Jesse's Word of the Day, 1998. New York: Random House.
  Compilation of columns written for the Q-and-A Jesse's Word of the Day website (formerly part of the Random House site, now no longer maintained).
• The F-Word, 1995. New York: Random House.
  Historical glossary of the word fuck.

Popular writing

• Various articles in Slate, 2004-.
• "Punctuation", in The Enlightened Bracketologist, ed. Mark Reiter and Richard Sandomir, New York: Bloomsbury, 2007.
• Defining Moment, Bookforum, October/November, 2005. Review of several books relating to Johnson's Dictionary.
• Confronting 'NOO-kyuh-luhr' Proliferation, New York Times, 13 June, 2002.
• Citations, New York Times, 9 September, 2001.
• The Lexicographer's Apprentice, Lingua Franca December–January 2001.
• (Introduction to) The Lexicon, by William F. Buckley, Jr., New York: Harcourt Brace, 1998.
• Revising The F-Word, Harper's, November 1998.
• Elegant Variations and All That, The Atlantic Monthly December, 1996. Extensive review of Robert Burchfield's revision of Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage. (Article only available to Atlantic subscribers; sorry.)
• The Word Man, Esquire, various dates in 1996. Horrible.

Scholarly publications

• American Lexicography, in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., 2005. With Patrick Hanks. Extensive history of American lexicography.
• (Review of) Programming for Linguists: Perl for Language Researchers, Journal of English Lingusitics, Vol. 31, No. 3 (September 2003).
• The OED's North American Editorial Unit, English Today, October, 2002. Introduction to the unit and what we do.
• (Review of) The Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series, Volume III, Dictionaries Vol. 20, 2000. (Written and submitted before I came to OED.)
• Principles for the Inclusion of New Words in College Dictionaries, Dictionaries Vol. 16, 1995.
• A Recent Coinage (Not!), American Speech Vol. 68 No. 2 (Summer 1993).

Academic presentations

• The Next 150 Years of the OED, Modern Language Association conference (Lexicography Discussion Group), 2007.
• The Quotation Paragraph in Historical Lexicography, Dictionary Society of North America conference, 2007.
• A Discussion of the Problems and Possibilities of Language in Internationalizing Liberal Education, Liberal Arts Education in America and the World conference, American Conference of Academic Deans/Phi Beta Kappa, 2005 (invited plenary lecture).
• Slang in Black-Oriented Dictionaries, Dictionary Society of North America conference, 2005. (Not delivered due to illness.)
• Electronic Databases and the Future of Historical Lexicography, Readex Digital Institute, 2004.
• George W. Matsell's Vocabulum: Or, the Rogue's Lexicon: A Reappraisal, Dictionary Society of North America conference, 2003.
• George W. Matsell's Vocabulum: Or, the Rogue's Lexicon, Joseph Schick Lecture, Indiana State University, 2003.
• The OED and the History of Science Fiction Vocabulary, Studies in the History of the English Language II conference, 2002.
• The Future of American Slang in the Oxford English Dictionary, 17th Annual Peter Tamony Memorial Lecture, University of Missouri, 2002.
• Why Dictionary Editors Make the Decisions They Do, Dictionary Society of North America conference, 1999.
• New Words in College Dictionaries, Dictionary Society of North America conference, 1995.
• "Date" in College Dictionaries, Dictionary Society of North America conference, 1995.
• The Use of CD-ROMs for Citation Gathering, Modern Language Association conference (Lexicography Discussion Group), 1993.