{"title":"Jesse Sheidlower","description":"Jesse Sheidlower is the editor of the previous editions of The F-Word. He was Editor at Large of the Oxford English Dictionary from 1999 to 2013; since then, he has remained active in linguistic matters. He has served as President of the American Dialect Society, and now teaches lexicography at Columbia University. He has written about language for a wide range of publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine, Lingua Franca, Playboy, Esquire, Slate, Boing Boing, Bookforum, and various scholarly journals, including American Speech, Dictionaries (journal of the Dictionary Society of North America), and The Journal of English Linguistics. He is also the editor of the Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction, an online resource which launched in 2021.","products":[{"product_id":"the-f-word-hardcover","title":"The F-Word - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA skillfully updated edition of The F-Word which renders a comprehensive portrait of English's most notorious and colorful word.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNo word has generated more uses, more creative euphemisms, and more strong opinions than \u003cem\u003efuck\u003c\/em\u003e. Jesse Sheidlower's historical dictionary, now in print for over 25 years, charts the uses of fuck and its many permutations, from \u003cem\u003eabsofuckinglutely\u003c\/em\u003e to \u003cem\u003ezipless fuck\u003c\/em\u003e. It illustrates every sense of every entry with quotations, from the earliest that can be found to a recent example, showing exactly how the word has been used throughout history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis new edition is not just a minor update but a comprehensive revision of Sheidlower's groundbreaking text for the internet age. Major new discoveries push back the known history of \u003cem\u003efuck\u003c\/em\u003e by almost two hundred years. Sheidlower also considers rapidly changing attitudes towards the use of \u003cem\u003efuck\u003c\/em\u003e in public discourse. The volume includes over 2,500 new quotations; over 150 new antedatings (earlier examples of existing entries, improving our understanding of the word's development); and over 150 entries, including high-profile recent uses such as AF 'as fuck', \u003cem\u003efuckboi\u003c\/em\u003e, and the group of expressions of the sort to \u003cem\u003egive no fucks\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003ezero fucks given\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51326874616031,"sku":"9780197763339","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/RzMO_NRP-s9780197763339.webp?v=1788465740"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/jesse-sheidlower.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}