Benjamin Zimmer is a linguist, lexicographer, and language commentator. He is currently a language columnist for The Wall Street Journal and contributing editor for The Atlantic.Formerly, Zimmer was a language columnist for The Boston Globe and The New York Times Magazine, and editor of American dictionaries at Oxford University Press. He has also been an executive editor of Vocabulary.com and VisualThesaurus.com. He has taught at UCLA, Kenyon College, and Rutgers University.Zimmer write "From A to Zimmer," a weekly lexicography column on the OUP blog. His work has also appeared on Slate, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Sunday Review, and The Atlantic.Zimmer received his B.A. in linguistics from Yale University, and went on to study linguistic anthropology at the University of Chicago.