Gretchen Mcculloch
Resident Linguist (Ideas Columnist) at Penguin Random House
Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area Canada
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Top SchoolGretchen Mcculloch is an internet linguist and communicator with 13 years of experience translating linguistic research for broad audiences as WIRED’s Resident Linguist, cohost of the Lingthusiasm podcast, and author of the New York Times bestselling Because Internet. She bridges academic rigor (M.A. in Linguistics from McGill) and popular media—writing columns, essays, and daily blog posts that illuminate how online communication reshapes grammar, emoji, and slang. Her work has appeared in major outlets and she’s spoken at SXSW and on NPR and BBC, demonstrating an ability to make subtle linguistic patterns both entertaining and actionable. Beyond publishing and broadcasting, she runs outreach efforts like #lingwiki editathons and produces recurring podcast content, showing a commitment to public-facing scholarship and community building. An avid observer of micropractices in digital speech, she pairs scholarly depth with a knack for memorable examples and a personal touch (fancy hats and indie ice cream shops).
13 years of coding experience
IB Diploma, IB Diploma at International BaccalaureateBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics at Queen's UniversityMaster of Arts (M.A.), Linguistics, Master of Arts (M.A.), Linguistics at McGill University
English, French, Spanish, German, Latin
Github Skills (12)
terminology10
pouchdb8
estimate8
entropy7
database7
couchdb7
corpus6
analyzer5
stemming5
nlp4
compression4
natural-language-processing4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
iLanguage/iLanguage
Oct 2012 - Oct 2013
Contributions:17 commits in 1 year
entropyunknownroughnatural-language-processingsemi
FieldDB/FieldDB
Oct 2012 - Feb 2014
An offline/online field database which adapts to its user's terminology and I-Language. http://fielddb.github.io
Contributions:79 commits in 1 year 4 months
online-offlinedatabasefieldterminologypouchdb
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